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<p>Djeli Moussa Diawara – Wouya Wouya</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-wouya-wouya/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-wouya-wouya/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa</span><span class="invisible">-diawara-wouya-wouya/</span></a></p><p>From his album “Yékéké (Paris 2010)“, Wouya Wouya is a 100% Manding solo track.</p><p>[Disclaimer: I was the producer of this album.]</p><p><a href="/tags/guinea/" rel="tag">#Guinea</a> <a href="/tags/kora/" rel="tag">#Kora</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a></p>

<p>Mah Damba – Jarabi</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mah-damba-jarabi-diva-mali/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mah-damba-jarabi-diva-mali/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mah-damba-ja</span><span class="invisible">rabi-diva-mali/</span></a></p><p>“Jarabi”, sung by Mah Damba with Korafola Djeli Moussa Diawara, appears on the compilation “Divas from Mali,” released in 1997.</p><p>Just close your eyes… Listen to the Diva and the Griot…</p><p>Mah Damba: vocals<br>Djeli Moussa Diawara: kora, vocals<br>Lansiné Kouyaté: balafon</p><p><a href="/tags/balafon/" rel="tag">#Balafon</a> <a href="/tags/guinea/" rel="tag">#Guinea</a> <a href="/tags/kora/" rel="tag">#Kora</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a></p>

<p>Djeli Moussa Diawara – Haidara (remastered)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-haidara-remastered/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-haidara-remastered/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa</span><span class="invisible">-diawara-haidara-remastered/</span></a></p><p>Here’s the full 2010 remastered version of Haidara DMD recorded in Abidjan in 1982 for his 1st album.</p><p>Read the stories about the album on Wikipedia.</p><p>This song was used in at least 2 movies &amp; soundtracks…</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/guinea/" rel="tag">#Guinea</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/kora/" rel="tag">#Kora</a></p>

<p>Kora Jazz Trio – Folly</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/kora-jazz-trio-folly-mezzo/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/kora-jazz-trio-folly-mezzo/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/kora-jazz-tr</span><span class="invisible">io-folly-mezzo/</span></a></p><p>Kora Jazz Trio was a three piece African musical group, founded in 2002 by Djeli Moussa Diawara, Guinean Korafola, with Abdoulaye Diabate (piano) and Moussa Sissokho (percussion), best known for producing a music that is a mix of American jazz with traditional African music. They released 3 studio albums […]</p><p><a href="/tags/guinea/" rel="tag">#Guinea</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/kora/" rel="tag">#Kora</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/sénégal/" rel="tag">#Sénégal</a></p>

<p>Djeli Moussa Diawara – Yékéké (Paris 2010)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-yekeke-paris-2010/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-yekeke-paris-2010/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa</span><span class="invisible">-diawara-yekeke-paris-2010/</span></a></p><p>Following the remastered version of “Yasimika (Abidjan 1982)”, “Yékéké (Paris 2010)” contains 9 tracks, recorded a few years before the release of this album, but never officially published.</p><p>It also contains new recordings of his 4 original songs from 1982, reworked in a studio in Paris with Guinean musicians. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/guinea/" rel="tag">#Guinea</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/kora/" rel="tag">#Kora</a></p>

<p>New album by Salif Keita released today: So Kono</p><p>Listen: Chérie<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79PQZz5Crc" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79PQZz5Crc"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79PQZ</span><span class="invisible">z5Crc</span></a></p><p>Review: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/11/salif-keita-so-kono-review-the-golden-voice-still-has-it" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/11/salif-keita-so-kono-review-the-golden-voice-still-has-it"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/music/2025</span><span class="invisible">/apr/11/salif-keita-so-kono-review-the-golden-voice-still-has-it</span></a></p><p>Bandcamp: <a href="https://salifkeita.bandcamp.com/album/so-kono" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="salifkeita.bandcamp.com/album/so-kono"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">salifkeita.bandcamp.com/album/</span><span class="invisible">so-kono</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/acoustic/" rel="tag">#Acoustic</a> <a href="/tags/nowplaying/" rel="tag">#NowPlaying</a></p>

<p>Kélétigui Diabaté – Koulandian</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/keletigui-diabate-koulandian/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/keletigui-diabate-koulandian/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/keletigui-di</span><span class="invisible">abate-koulandian/</span></a></p><p>He has been called the “bibliothèque de la musique Africaine” (library of African music) by younger African musicians, multi-instrumentalist Kélétigui Diabaté (1931-2012) was the unsung hero of West African music. Kélétigui was the first balafon player to use two instruments tuned a semitone apart to facilitate playing jazz! [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/balafon/" rel="tag">#Balafon</a> <a href="/tags/instrumental/" rel="tag">#Instrumental</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>

<p>Karantamba – Ndigal</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/karantamba-ndigal/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/karantamba-ndigal/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/karantamba-n</span><span class="invisible">digal/</span></a></p><p>Bai Janha, alias “Sweet Fingers,” composer, arranger, guitar player of Guelewar &amp; Ifang Bondi, is undisputedly the most important musician to have come from Gambia. This unreleased recording presents Bai Janha with his psychedelic Karantamba, a school for young musicians, captured in Thiès (Sénégal) at “Sangomar” Club on 16th of August 1984. Band lea</p><p><a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/psychedelic/" rel="tag">#Psychedelic</a> <a href="/tags/sénégal/" rel="tag">#Sénégal</a> <a href="/tags/thegambia/" rel="tag">#TheGambia</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>

<p>Kamele N’goni…</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/kamele-ngoni/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/kamele-ngoni/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/kamele-ngoni</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p>J’assiste depuis un certain temps à l’éclosion “soudaine” dans le monde musical, d’un instrument hautement traditionnel, voire mystique, le Kamele N’goni (ou Kamale Ngoni).</p><p>Cet instrument traditionnel fait partie d’une […]</p><p><a href="/tags/burkinafaso/" rel="tag">#BurkinaFaso</a> <a href="/tags/kora/" rel="tag">#Kora</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/ngoni/" rel="tag">#Ngoni</a></p>

<p>Bazoumana, the Djeli and his N’goni</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/bazoumana-djeli-ngoni/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/bazoumana-djeli-ngoni/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/bazoumana-dj</span><span class="invisible">eli-ngoni/</span></a></p><p>Bazoumana, or Banzumana, Sissoko (1890-1987) – aka the « old lion » – was a n’goni player, a Malian national treasure as well as a djeli (jeli) or griot.</p><p>&quot;The quintessential n’goni player was the late Banzumana Sissoko, perhaps the most revered and beloved Malian griot of the century. Until his death in 1987, he […]</p><p><a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/mali/" rel="tag">#Mali</a> <a href="/tags/manding/" rel="tag">#Manding</a> <a href="/tags/ngoni/" rel="tag">#Ngoni</a></p>