For many hundreds of years the Maninka people of Guinea and Mali have promulgated one of the world's great stringed-instrument traditions. Indigenous harps and lutes have always predominated in this

River Strings

For many hundreds of years the Maninka people of Guinea and Mali have promulgated one of the world's great stringed-instrument traditions. Indigenous harps and lutes have always predominated in this music, but around 50 years ago an influential innovator called Facelli KantÃ© introduced the guitar to Maninka music. One of his nephews, KantÃ© Manfila, further modernized the tradition, playing the lead electric guitar in Les Ambassadors in the 1970s and 80s. Manfila's younger brother, Djessou Mory KantÃ©, is best known as the guitarist that such world-renowned singers as Salif Keita and SÃ©kouba Bambino engage when they want the best. RIVER STRINGS is an album of beautifully crafted instrumentals, impeccably recorded in Salif Keita's Studio Moffou in Bamako, Mali. Djessou Mory KantÃ©'s acoustic and electric guitars (understated but masterly, gentle but beguiling) are accompanied by bass, percussion and, on two pieces, the supporting guitar of the Super Rail Band's Djelimady Tounkara.
Country USA
Brand Sterns Africa
Manufacturer Sterns Africa
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber STCD 1124
ReleaseDate 2014-10-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 5017742302816

River Strings