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Album Review

Issa Bagayogo: Tassoumakan

Read "Tassoumakan" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Studio tools offer both tools and temptation, and so artists who spend a lot of time in the studio had better be careful in how they use them. Mali's Issa Bagayogo spent plenty of time with buttons and knobs when he put together Tassoumakan, his third full-length recording, and the results reveal both the power and the drawbacks of the medium. Bagayogo sings and plays the kamele ngoni, a six-stringed lute-like instrument, drawing upon the skills of other musicians like ...

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Recording

Issa Bagayogo's Newest Album, "Mali Koura," Released on Six Degrees Records

Issa Bagayogo's Newest Album, "Mali Koura," Released on Six Degrees Records

Source: All About Jazz

"...Bagayogo is taking the local music out of the wilderness and moving it into the space age, with digital bravado. He's not making strictly NPR world beat anymore. College kids, world beaters and others looking for out sounds will find a sympathetic fellow traveler on board here." Midwest Record

Issa Bagayogo may seem like an unlikely candidate for international dancefloor success. His home country of Mali is one of the ten poorest nations in the world, and one ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Tassoumakan

Unknown label
2004

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