livemusic
Arat Kilo (France) + Mamani Keita (Mali) + Mike Ladd (USA)
Live in 2018 - Vizeplio
https://youtu.be/jDAqIEK_2Bk
Their 5th album "Danama" will be released next March.
Jazz’n Kora… So What…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-kora-miles-davis-so-what-cover/
Djeli Moussa Diawara covering Miles Davis’ So What, live in Paris in 2011.
Djeli Moussa Diawara plays a unique 32-strings Kora, where he can have access to the traditional harp-luth sounds and some guitar/bass ones in one instrument.
Disclaimer: I was the producer here.
Caravan – Djeli Moussa Diawara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/duke-ellington-caravan-djeli-moussa-diawara/
Cover version of Duke Ellington’s Caravan (recorded + live) by Djeli Moussa Diawara on Kora.
Disclaimer: I produced the album Yékéké (Paris 2010)
This track was recorded and produced earlier.
#Guinea #Jazz #Kora #LiveMusic #AfroJazz #DukeEllington #Caravan
The Drummers of Burundi
https://amf.didiermary.fr/drummers-burundi/
The Drummers of Burundi were the heroes of the first-ever WOMAD Festival in 1982 and, 10 years later, at Real World Studios, they immortalized their art with this deeply hypnotic performance.
Raw, heady and immediate, this record is a one-way ticket to the pumping heart and soul of the mother continent. […]
Wanlov Kubolor and the Afro-Gypsy Band live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/wanlov-kubolor-afro-gypsy-band-live-babel-med/
Mixing influences from Romania (his father) and Ghana (his mother), Wanlov Kubolor with his Afro Gypsy Band received the Mondomix Babel Med Music 2013 award in Marseilles.
Wanlov elaborates a music that is novel and full of spirit. Expressing the improbable encounter between his two countries of […]
Djeli Moussa Diawara – Autumn Leaves (cover)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-autumn-leaves/
Autumn Leaves cover live – une reprise des Feuilles Mortes
Djeli Moussa Diawara played this song for an event to support the Tunisian Spring a few years ago in Paris…
Cheny Wa Gune, King of Timbila!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cheny-wa-gune-king-timbila/
Cheny Wa Gune is the contemporary King of Timbila!
Check some videos I shot @ Womex a few years ago…
Amazones de Guinée !
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amazones-guinee/
Les Amazones de Guinée, enregistrées en concert à la Mutualité (Paris), en avril 1983, pour l’album “Au cœur de Paris”.
C’est un groupe musical dont les membres sont toutes des femmes soldats dans les forces armées de Guinée. Formé en 1961 sous le nom d’Orchestre féminin de la gendarmerie de Guinée, il a ensuite été […]
Assa Matusse - Aprendeste aonde?
https://youtu.be/dTufgpX6sQA
Live version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHhMmgLHf68
Ambassadeur International – N’Toman
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ambassadeur-international-ntoman/
Ambassadeur International, ex Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako.
From the album Mandjou (1978) with the young Salif Keita and his fantastic voice. With Kante Manfila, Cissoko Moussa, Ousmane Kouyate and Sekou Diabate.
Amazones de Guinée – Live at La Paillote
https://amf.didiermary.fr/live-paillote-amazones-guinee/
The band Les Amazones de Guinée played at an event at La Paillote, to celebrate the completion of The British Library Endangered Archives Programme in 2013.