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Sample Track 1:
"Diama Don" from Tassoumakan
Sample Track 2:
"Ciew Mawele" from Tassoumakan
Sample Track 3:
"Dya" from Tassoumakan
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Pasadena Weekly, CD Review >>

ISSA BAGAYOGO
Tassoumakan (Six Degrees)

Bagayogo’s globally acclaimed “Timbuktu” was one of this page’s top picks for 2002’s best albums.  The recently released “Tassoumakan” (“Voice of Fire”) mines the same fields of Malian folk, talking blues and electronica without, thankfully, getting trapped in a rut.  If anything, dance-floor habitués can exult in even deeper grooves and insistent beats on tracks like “N’Deri,” “Koroto” and “Chauffeur,” while the female answering choruses and frequently utilized n’goni (six-stringed traditional lute) craft the mesmerizing impression that Bagayogo’s singing from some long-past point in time. www.sixdegreesrecords.com

 09/09/04
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