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As a one-time collaborator with his late countryman Ali Farka Toure, Kouyate embraces Mali’s desert blues. But instead of guitar, he plays ngoni, the banjo-like West African lute he named his band after: Ngoni Ba means big ngoni, and features three other ngoni players. Western influences abound for Kouyate, who has played with Santana, U2, Taj Mahal and Bela Fleck. Lilting and lyrical, the ngoni quartet makes a hypnotic chorus of strings, and with guests Toumani Diabate (kora) and Farka Toure’s son Vieux (guitar), Kouyate’s cross-cultural path delightfully comes full circle. Download: “Landon.” (Appearing Saturday at the Somerville Theater.) 03/26/10 >> go there
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