I love the variety of stringed instruments you can find across the world...here are three records celebrating ancient tools of the folk music trade: Sourakata Koite's kora (Senegal), Asnakech Worku's krar (Ethiopia) and Awalom Gebremariam's mesenqo (Eritrea)
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en Hollande
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en Hollande – Sourakata Koité — en Hollande CD
$10 USD
en Hollande – Sourakata Koité en Hollande LP
$22 USD
en Hollande – Sourakata Koité en Hollande Cassette
$12 USD
Sourakata Koité Dakar, Senegal
Senegalese kora master Sourakata Koité began music from pretty much day one. "All the Koité are musicians!,” he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of griot, the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After moving to Paris in the late 70s he began to play in different bands and for musicians like Manu Dibango, Touré Kounda, Mangala, Mah Damba and more. ... more
