Taj Mahal And Toumani Diabate-Kulanjan-CD-FLAC-1999-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate
     Title   | Kulanjan
     Genre   | Blues                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 58:56
     Label   | Hannibal Records                     Store   | 1999
     Catalog | HNCD 1444                            Rip     | 2020
     Bitrate | 808 kbps                             Size    | 358.01 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Queen Bee                                                   5:04
     02. Tunkaranke                                                  6:31
     03. Ol' George Buck                                             4:13
     04. Kulanjan                                                    4:35
     05. Fanta                                                       4:41
     06. Guede Man Na                                                6:09
     07. Catfish Blues                                               5:29
     08. K'an Ben                                                    4:59
     09. Take This Hammer                                            5:01
     10. Atlanta Kaira                                               4:59
     11. Mississippi-Mali Blues                                      3:17
     12. Sahara                                                      3:58
 Notes  
     One of the most prominent figures in late 20th century blues,
     singer/multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal played an enormous role in
     revitalizing and preserving traditional acoustic blues. Not content to stay
     within that realm, Mahal soon broadened his approach, taking a
     musicologist's interest in a multitude of folk and roots music from around
     the world - reggae and other Caribbean folk, jazz, gospel, R&B, zydeco,
     various West African styles, Latin, even Hawaiian. The African-derived
     heritage of most of those forms allowed Mahal to explore his own ethnicity
     from a global perspective and to present the blues as part of a wider
     musical context.
     Yet while he dabbled in many different genres, he never strayed too far
     from his laid-back country blues foundation. Blues purists naturally didn't
     have much use for Mahal's music, and according to some of his other
     detractors, his multi-ethnic fusions sometimes came off as indulgent, or
     overly self-conscious and academic. Still, Mahal's concept was vindicated
     in the '90s, when a cadre of young bluesmen began to follow his lead - both
     acoustic revivalists (Keb' Mo', Guy Davis) and eclectic bohemians (Corey
     Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart).
     This informal collaboration between veteran American bluesman Mahal
     and Malian kora (it's a 21-stringed lute-like instrument) master
     Diabate was recorded in an Athens, GA, studio with a sextet of West
     African string instrumentalists and vocalists. It sounds like a half
     a world away, with the two mixed cultures merging to create
     traditional blues based on non-traditional musical values. Mahal's
     gruff, weary voice is soothed by the Malian crew's sweet tones;
     conversely, the leaders' picking styles sound as if they were
     harvested from the same land. Natural, unpretentious, and
     occasionally sensual, "Kulanjan" is classy world music without the
     stuffy undertones.

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