Lobi Traoré: The Lobi Traoré Group
CML call number: CD/INTERNATIONAL/Traoré
Personnal: Lobi Traoré, guitar, lead vocals; Samba Traoré, Modibo Soumano, Mady Savadogo, vocals; Mamadou Keita, Brehima Kouyaté, bass guitar; Sékou Diarra, drums; Modibo Kouyaté, balafon (xylophone); Boubacar Sissoko, djembe ("a skin covered drum shaped like a large goblet … meant to be played with bare hands" and producing a wide range of tones, according to Wikipedia).
Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York Times: "Mr. Traoré is a Malian singer and guitarist, and the leader of the Lobi Traoré Group, which has a self-titled CD (Honest Jon/Astralwerks) out soon in America, and on it the band is loose but precise, conjuring one off-center groove after another. And while Mr. Traoré knows his way around a serpentine solo, he's even more impressive playing something more repetitive: in 'Koro Duga Mele Bila,' where a guitar figure grounds and stabilizes the music with the same few notes. The lyrics are in Bambara, and for one frisky song, 'Deni Kelen Be Koko' ('Lonely Girl by the Riverside'), the booklet provides one pithy sentence: 'Come on, girl, let's fool around'" ("Playlist: Petulance with a Helping of Sugar on Top," 3/12/06).
Personnal: Lobi Traoré, guitar, lead vocals; Samba Traoré, Modibo Soumano, Mady Savadogo, vocals; Mamadou Keita, Brehima Kouyaté, bass guitar; Sékou Diarra, drums; Modibo Kouyaté, balafon (xylophone); Boubacar Sissoko, djembe ("a skin covered drum shaped like a large goblet … meant to be played with bare hands" and producing a wide range of tones, according to Wikipedia).
Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York Times: "Mr. Traoré is a Malian singer and guitarist, and the leader of the Lobi Traoré Group, which has a self-titled CD (Honest Jon/Astralwerks) out soon in America, and on it the band is loose but precise, conjuring one off-center groove after another. And while Mr. Traoré knows his way around a serpentine solo, he's even more impressive playing something more repetitive: in 'Koro Duga Mele Bila,' where a guitar figure grounds and stabilizes the music with the same few notes. The lyrics are in Bambara, and for one frisky song, 'Deni Kelen Be Koko' ('Lonely Girl by the Riverside'), the booklet provides one pithy sentence: 'Come on, girl, let's fool around'" ("Playlist: Petulance with a Helping of Sugar on Top," 3/12/06).
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