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CD Review, in "In the Mix"
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Sacramento News and Review, CD Review, in "In the Mix" >>
Habib Koite
Afriki
(Cumbancha)
Koite comes from a musical family and developed his unique guitar style byimitating the sound of his mother¹s kamele n¹goni, an instrument that sounds like a bass/guitar/banjo/thumb piano hybrid. His gently rhythmic music has a mellow acoustic vibe that incorporates sounds from all over Mali and West Africa, marked by his gruff, honeyed tenor the propulsive backing of his band Badema. On OFimani² Koite¹s guitar sounds like a kora (African harp) playing flamenco jazz, while blues harmonica and balafon dance around the
rhythms of a talking drum. On the title tune, Koite uses subtle horn charts, arranged by jazzman Pee Wee Ellis to drop a bit of Afro-beat into the mix and he gets back to basics on ³Nta Dima², a tune driven by multi-layered hand percussion and forceful call and response vocals.
By: j. poet
10/18/07 >> go there
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