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 Makan Tounkara nicknamed « Badjé » is a famous n'konifôlaA
nkonifolá is a player of n'koni (the one who is able to make the n'koni talk) - nkonifolàlù, plural... Read more., from Mali.
Grandson of Djeli Baba Sissoko (1922-2001), Makan Tounkara was born in 1965 not far from Bamako. As musical
teacher, his father Mody Tounkara taught him. Famous n'konifôlaA
nkonifolá is a player of n'koni (the one who is able to make the n'koni talk) - nkonifolàlù, plural... Read more. , conductor of the Instrumental Ensemble of Mali, he gave him the traditional guitar ever since he was able to strike
strings. Badjé was taught a strictjèlílujèlílu (plural, jèlílu) are bards, loremasters, and praise-singers in the Manding areas... Read more. education.
As a young fifteen old boy, Badjé had to accompany Adja Soumano, then he has regularly played with Amy Koïta. He played with the greatest names in Malian music and can be heard today with Sekouba Bambino, Baba Maal, Nainy Diabaté or Djeneba Seck. Indeed, in the 1990s, he was
acclaimed a « jali kuntigui » (Griot Masterchief).
On his first solo album, Mali Ngoni, Makan Tounkara exhibited perfect abilities
demonstrating wide possibilities of that instrument, the only one, if mastered, that gives the right to be called «Jèlíbà », i.e : «Great Master Griot».
In 2012, Makan is back with an mastering album, lurking around the blues, Sodjan, and renews the proof that «one
can play all kind of music» on the ngoni The n'koni is a melodic instrument hailing from the Fulani, used since antiquity by that ethnic group... Read more., the
instrument king of Manding music classic : see his masterful interpretation of Suba on his album, titled Massaya.
Badjé has been accompagnied on this album with the voices of Zoe Coulibaly, Gedon Diara, Adama Diabate, Djuiby Kanoute, and that of his wife Fatoumata « Djélini » Kouyaté. He also has instrumental
support of Mody Tounkara (ngoni The n'koni is a melodic instrument hailing from the Fulani, used since antiquity by that ethnic group... Read more.), Yakouba Sissoko (ngoni The n'koni is a melodic instrument hailing from the Fulani, used since antiquity by that ethnic group... Read more. ba , i.e. : lute bass)
Djifili (djembe drum), Modibo Diabaté (flé flute and krin scraper), Mamadou Tounkara (tama, i.e : talking drum).
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Makan Tounkara, Mali-N'goni © 2003, Cinq Planetes - CP 03266 |
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Makan Tounkara, Sodjan © 2012, Buda Musique |
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