More from Mali: ngoni masters.(Sound recording review)

African Business | January 1, 2008 | Copyright

Segu Blue

By Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba

Out Here Records

Cat: OH 007

This is the first solo album by Malian musician and composer Bassekou Kouyate. He is one of the true masters of the ngoni and Segu Blue is a tour de force of this instrument, sometimes described as a West African lute. Unlike the kora, whose history goes back only a few hundred years, the ngoni has been the main instrument in griot storytelling since the 13th century, the days of Soundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire.

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