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Bassekou Kouyateis one of Mali's best-known Ngoni players. He has collaborated with many important traditional musicians of his country as well as international such as Carlos Santana, U2 among many others.
Bassekou was raised in a traditional musical environment, his mother was a praise singer and his father and brothers exceptional ngoni players. By the late 1980s Bassekou was part of Toumani Diabate's Trio and they recorded their first albums together, Songhai and Djelika.
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Bassekou has now finally has put together his own band: Ngoni ba; the big ngoni: Malis first ngoni quartett. In July he recorded his debut album Segu Blue. The ngoni is the key instrument for Griot culture. The repertoire Bassekou plays on Segu Blue is from the region of Segu the heart of Bambara culture. Bambara music is pentatonic in nature, a music as close to the Blues as you can get in Africa.
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