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  There is no need to introduce today Mory Kante, nick-named « the electric griot », so famous world wide, coming from Guinea. Revealed to the public by its planetary tube "Yeke Yeke" - a Guinean folk song initialy rather slow but boosted by synths and groovy samples boxes of the 80's on Akwaba beach, that « hit had been sold out to two millions specimens and even translated into Hebrew and Chinese, proving as well as the African music could make dance all the youth of the world. »
© Nago Seck & Sylvie Clerfeuille, The Musicians Of The African Beat, [ bibliography]
 Actually, public audience knows Mory Kante as a vocalist and a korafolá A korafolá is a kora player in mandinka (who is able to make the kora talk) - korafolálu, plural. ; admittedly, he was initiated to the instrument by the great Batourou Sekou KouyateBatrou Sekou Kouyate was a very great korafolá from Mali... Read more. when he was a teenager, at the time he followed her mother who was settling in Mali, ; however, one should know that the first instrument he practised was the balafon - privileged instrument of his family : so, « the traditional teaching of the young Mory started with his father, El Hadj Djelifode Kante, chief of jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer... Read more. of Kissidougou, and he died out at 109 years old. Among the last of his thirty-eight children, Mory went to the French school and learned how to play the balaphon, emblematic instrument of the Kante family. »
Besides, you could listen to Mory Kante playing the bala in a interpretation of Mali SadioThis song hails from a popular tale. The tale has on it that a loving link rise up between a young woman and a hippo. Every time the woman washed clothes or dishes at the river, a mighty and supernatural hippo talked to her... Read more. on Royaume du Mande. The initial percussive formation of Mory Kante clarifies, on my sense, his predilection for « groovy » rythms and his interest for percussive tradionnal instruments as it is exhibited in Sabou album.
Mory Kante likes performing some «classics» folksongs of the Manding traditional repertoire such as Allah La Ke« Alla La Ke » is one of the most famous songs of old Manding music tradition... Read more. - entitled "Mali-Ba" (Tatebola), but he is much more attracted by Guinean or Manding folksong's melodies - that he modernizes successfully.
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Batrou Sekou Kouyaté fut un très grand korafolá du Mali... Lire la suite.
