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	Music of Mali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The music of Mali is dominated by forms derived from the ancient Mande Empire.
		The Maninka, Mandinka and Banmana languages are spoken in Mali and in parts of surrounding Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal and The Gambia.
		The modern form of wassoulou music is a combination of hunter's songs with sogoninkun, a type of elaborate masked dance, and the music is largely based on the kamalengoni harp invented in the late 1950s by Allata Brulaye Sidibí.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Mali (1978 words)

	Mali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (French: République du Mali), is a landlocked nation in Western Africa.
		Under Mali's 1992 constitution, a president is elected for a five year term as chief of state and commander in chief of the armed forces.
		Mali is among the poorest countries in the world, with 65% of its land area desert or semidesert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mali (1498 words)

	Music of Mali: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions may vary....
		Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in africa and traveled via the slave trade to cuba and the new world....
		Techno is a form of electronic music that emerged in the mid-1980s and primarily refers to a particular style developed in and around detroit and subsequently...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_of_mali.htm (3832 words)

	Music \| Sampling Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Searching for musical inspiration on the African continent is a rock-and-roll cliché that ranks right up there with dating supermodels and firing the manager.
		Mali Music feels like a genuine attempt by Albarn to do the right thing, as if England’s imperial past were still giving him nightmares.
		Galliano’s combination of house and African music is a natural one, since both emphasize cyclical arrangements and sustained repeating rhythms.
	bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02438283.htm (1406 words)

	Mali Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In case you have yet to go to Mali it is poor country on the southern edge of the Sahara, landlocked and difficult to get to.
		It has recently become well know as a source of "World Music" and "Mali Music", an album created by Damon Albarn (Blur and Gorillaz) is an interesting introduction to its music.
		MALI: "Mali is a country that is intimately related to a great river--in this case, the Niger.
	www.merrynjose.com /artman/publish/printer_23.shtml (306 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Mali CD Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tinariwen is a Kel Temeshek or Tuareg band, whose trancey Sahara desert blues served as the musical soundtrack to a fierce fight against discrimination, passed via cassette from camel to 4x4 to taxi across the region.
		Mali also features Mamou Sidibé, who worked with the same producers as Bagayogo to create a beguiling blend of tradition and technology.
		Often seen on stage with Habib Koité, Kélétigui Diabaté is a legendary figure in Malian music and one of the foremost balafón (xylophone) players in Africa.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/05maliputucd.html (686 words)

	ipedia.com: Music of Mali Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		West African music Benin Burkina Faso Chad Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo The music of Mali is dominated by forms deriv...
		Few non-jelis have taken music as a profession, though Salif Keita remains an extremely prominent example of a noble-born Malian who became a singer, adopting traditional garb and styles.
		The modern form of wassoulou music is a combination of hunter's songs with sogoninkum, a type of elaborate masked dance.
	www.ipedia.com /music_of_mali.html (1639 words)

	People and Culture of Mali
		The traditional music of Mali is based on the songs of the jalis (or griots), a distinct caste in the social structure since the days of the Mali Empire.
		In Mali, nearly all ceremonies are accompanied by the timeless and distinctive melody of drums.
		Mali is also famed for Genuine mudcloth with hand-painted designs using the traditional methods which have been passed down for many centuries.
	www.africaguide.com /country/mali/culture.htm (886 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mali
		The Republic of Mali (République du Mali) is a land-locked nation in West Africa.
		Rule by dictatorship was brought to a close in 1991 with a transitional government, and in 1992 when Mali's first democratic presidential election was held.
		Mali's constitution provides for a multi-party democracy, with the only restriction being a prohibition against parties based on ethnic, religious, regional, or gender lines.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mali (600 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mali Music: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With Mali Music it's possible at last to see how Damon Albarn's foray into Africa has worked out: most members of what Albarn's friend Michael Nyman has dubbed the "world-music police" would probably be happy to give it a qualified thumbs-up.
		We thus get music that actually feels layered: a typical track will start with a simple groove on kora or ngoni, then it will acquire a voice, then some electronic effects, and it will finally be enveloped in a seductive miasma of local atmosphere.
		Mali Music is based on the recordings made by Damon Albarn on an Oxfam-organised trip to Mali a couple of years ago.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000636ZT (1096 words)

	BBC News \| REVIEWS \| Mali music leaves Albarn behind
		Before the lights dimmed for this musical first, the stage was littered with a sea of instruments.
		Albarn's latest vision is to capture the remarkable essence of Malian music and meld them together with contemporary Western sounds, and what followed was an interesting experiment in harmonising Africa and Europe.
		As for Albarn, his musical contribution was peripheral for most of the evening.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/reviews/1896697.stm (536 words)

	Music \| The Mali connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Californian singer-songwriter Markus James culminates seven years of musical travels in northern Mali on his moody and minimalist CD Nightbird (Firenze), which was recorded in Mali with musicians from various local traditions.
		When James returned to Mali in 2000 to record Nightbird, he and Sidibe were joined by two extraordinary musicians from Niafunke, Hassi Saré, who plays ethereal cycling melodies on the hypnotic one-string fiddle, the njarka, and Hamma Sankaré, who adds thumping, tumbling calabash rhythms, just as he has on almost all of Touré’s recordings.
		For Corey Harris, the discovery of Ali Farka Touré’s music was a revelation.
	bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02438282.htm (2010 words)

	BBC News \| MUSIC \| Albarn's Mali mission
		When he travelled to Mali for Oxfam's On the Line project, his most ambitious music project yet was to begin.
		When quizzed why he didn't just sign up the Malian artists to Honest Jon's in their own right, rather than involve himself in the music, he is keen to defend his role in creating Mali Music.
		I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/1926727.stm (742 words)

	Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: Mali \| Music of Mali
		Music is one of the primary cultural resources of Mali.
		This music is still alive and performed, but modern Malian music has become more diverse as several other styles developed over time.
		The use of modern instruments such as the electric guitar or the classic guitar is often done in a way to imitate the sound of the traditional instruments.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Speedway/4939/frames/mus_mali.html (497 words)

	Music from Mali
		The son of the legendary kora master Djelimoussa Cissoko, balake was born in 1967 in Bamako, Mali and was quickly brought into the family;'s musical traditions.
		The music is modern and electric, but Diabate is not singing to an international audience - unless someone can explain how Farming (one song's title) is suddenly a hip, cosmopolitan theme in pop music.
		Electro-acoustic roots music from Mali byu a modern master of the kamélé n'goni.
	www.cdroots.com /mali.shtml (2911 words)

	West African Music
		Jeliya, the art of the jeli, is the field of music most closely associated with the ruling Mandinka elite, but it is appreciated by all members of Manding culture.
		Jeliya can be chamber music, played in the open courtyard of a patron, or concert music, played in the halls or stadiums of large cities.
		Tomora mesengo and Hardino are predominant in eastern Gambia, with Sauta prevailing in Mali.
	www.koramusic.com /1/west-african-music.html (1289 words)

	In Music We Trust - Mali Music: Mali Music
		Albarn, a darling of the British music scene, became enamored with Mali on a visit there and later returned to put together an album featuring many of Mali's great musicians and disparate music styles.
		It is a strong introduction to the traditional, but generally overlooked, music of Mali.
		They capture the heart of a country rich with musical legacy that should be accessed by a larger audience.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/55r26.html (219 words)

	Music From Mali's Grand Prince of Kora
		In Toumani's 1995 recording, Djelika (named after his daughter), presents the young kora giant in a mostly-Malian context accompanied by a great elder of the wooden balaphone, Keletigui Diabate, a young lion of the banjo-like ngoni, Basekou Kouyate, and bassist Danny Thompson, a veteran of the Songhai session who adds tasteful underpinnings.
		The group ventures into the bluesy territory of Malian Wassoulou music on Tony Vander with Thompson's bass taking the deep tugging role of the kamele ngoni (hunters harp), a kind of six string bass kora used in that music.
		On Cheick Oumar Bah, a kora and bass duo, Toumani reveals himself as the Keith Jarrett of the kora cycling through beautifully loping melodies that shift organically, drawing the listener in with hypnotic warmth.
	www.coraconnection.com /pages/Toumani.html (286 words)

	International - Department [musica obscura] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The result was some 40 hours of recorded material which Albarn massaged into the core tracks that would become 'Mali Music', adding instrumental textures and the dubbed out bass work of Junior Dan (of Augustus Pablo's early thumping).
		After that, the new recordings were brought back down to Mali for additional collaborations with the original musicians to create an incredible collection of tunes.
		As Albarn states quite bluntly, his goal is to get everyone into the music of Mali, and with an album as remarkable as this, he may very well get his wish.
	www.musicaobscura.com /index.cfm/org/5/fuseaction/details_department/product_id/2250/department_id/18.htm (225 words)

	Amazon.com: Mali Music: Music: Damon Albarn,Toumani Diabate,Afel Bocoum,Ko Kan Ko Sata Doumbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This record is a fine piece of work and represents a spirit of music that seems to be loss in the hype of manufactured bollocks.
		The musical textures and rhythmic layers are soothing and gorgeous.
		Mali Music is like my heart beating, and fresh meeting.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006EXE0?v=glance (1460 words)

	Africa, Mali - Music
		It was genius to avoid the homogenization of "world" music by recording this CD in Mali, near home, with local musicians.
		The music can be described as a sort of "Sahara blues", a mix of North and West African traditional music and American blues, but there's much more to it than that.
		The melodies have been passed down from the rich traditions of Malian music and are newly interpreted by Toumani.
	www.africaguide.com /country/mali/music.htm (1799 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - World - Guide to World Music: Mali
		Mali has produced some of the great superstars of modern African music: kora player Toumani Diabaté, golden voiced singers Salif Keita and Oumou Sangare, dancebands like the Super Rail Band, and the great river-bluesman Ali Farka Touré;.
		Lucy Duran, presenter of Radio 3's World Routes, has spent years in Mali researching the music of its flamboyant divas, and has worked as a producer with some of Mali's leading musicians.
		The revamped 90s sound of Mali's greatest band, founded in 1970.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/world/guidemali.shtml (148 words)

	African Music on the Internet
		An introduction to African music in 100 CDs is a directory arranged by country, name of artists or groups, CD titles, artists (including compilations), style of music, instrument, language, type of music, and label.
		Sells beautiful hand-crafted musical instruments." Included with any kora is a day of instruction with David Gilden, who will teach you how tune, fix broken strings when they occur, and get you started on learning the basics of the music." The kora is played in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali.
		Their Music of Africa series is for those with a general interest in African music.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/music.html (6911 words)

	World Music Central - Mali Lolo! Stars of Mali
		To celebrate the event, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has released a compilation of music from Mali.
		Stars of Mali (Smithsonian Folkways 40508) showcases the preeminent musicians on the forefront of Mali's modern musical renaissance.
		This collection exemplifies each artist's exploration of the rich ground between revered musical traditions and the innovations of modern Mali that draw upon a myriad of Western influences.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20030624090553993 (248 words)

	Mali
		“A lot of people believe Mali will be the next Cuba,” says Putumayo VP of A&R Jacob Edgar, reflecting on the potential of Mali’s music to crossover to a wider audience.
		Issa Bagayogo emerged with his subtle mix of electronics and traditional Malian music, and was a revelation for American audiences.” This is the first time Bagayogo’s “Bana” will be released in America.
		“Mali is one of those places that—like Cuba, South Africa, and Brazil—is an epicenter of extraordinary music,” Edgar continues.
	www.putumayo.com /catalog/item.php?item_number=236-2 (732 words)

	African Studies Center \| Mali Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The index has been created by The Norwegian Council for Africa, as part of its comprehensive effort to strengthen the knowledge of Africa and African affairs.
		From January 18-30 1997, the Mali Interactive Project was online from Jenné, Mali, posting information on archaeological excavations and discoveries at the site of Jenné-jeno and on encounters with the people and culture of Jenné.
		Phtographs from different cities of Mali, and sound clips of famous musicians.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Country_Specific/Mali.html (285 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Mali Music *
		Based upon a series of trips to Africa, where Albarn jammed-with and recorded local musicians, the songs on Mali Music were then pieced together from the 40 hours of tape that was collected.
		Like Gorrillaz, Mali Music is a blend of many styles, cut and crafted into a marketable pop.
		Occasionally, Albarn goes a little overboard in his attempts to repackage the music for Western hipsters (the aforementioned “Makelekele”).
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/429 (409 words)

	mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That's not a coincidence as music deeply rooted in folk traditions has a better chance to thrive when modern instruments are brought into the mix, along with ngoni and traditional percussion.
		In a welcome encounter, he furthers the cause of Pan-African music by jamming with an all-star line-up of West African musicians in an album that is exciting to jazz fans as well as diehard African music traditionalists.
		Sidibé comes from a musical family (her father is a professional balafon player; her mother a well-known singer) and made her recording debut as a backup singer for Oumou Sangaré;, one of Mali's top divas.
	www.muzikifan.com /mali.html (4381 words)

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