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The griot's craft

Sékouba Bambino

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Summary: "The songs are all Bambino originals composed in traditional Mande forms and modes but with decidedly current themes, ranging from the perils of modern love to the heinous practice of female circumcision. Similarly, traditional Mande instruments - kora, ngoni and balafon - are deftly augmented by acoustic guitars and bass. Above all, though, is the griot's voice. By turns melancholy, tender, playful and impassioned, Bambino's voice - one of the best in the world - never fails to touch hearts and minds"--Amazon.com.

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fRoots

2013 Jan/Feb

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Rick Sanders

2013 Jan/Feb

"[The Griot's Craft] offers an impeccable insight into the classical culture of the Mandé as rendered by a mature master. The bass is electric but everything about the album is careful, conservative and comme il faut. You might almost say austere, were it not for the beauty and emotional force of Bambino's singing. A griot carries the history and culture of his people, and sings it. It's a huge and responsible business, reciting enormous genealogies and epic histories with soul, spirit and accuracy. His task includes social criticism - there's a powerful song here against ritual female genital mutilation ... Once the riff is established, it simply repeats. Solos are rare. All the interest is in how the instruments sustain the shimmering, hypnotic backdrop and how Sekouba draws on it and overlays and shoots off at tangents, speaking almost in tongues. Calm, explosion, torrent, murmur: his voice is a heartbreaker".