Mamadou Diabate and Percussion Mania is known for its virtuosic balafon playing and rhythm and is characterized by two balafons as lead instruments. This ensemble is the only one of its kind worldwide ...

Both have played with Mamadou’s cousin, Toumani Diabate, a kora master whose trad/mod Symmetric Orchestra blew Malian music wide open in the ’90s. (Some say that Keletigui and Toumani aren’t ...

Mamadou Diabate: Griot Classique. by Dan Bilawsky August 4, 2014. The kora--a West African harp with twenty-one strings and a gourd resonator--is more than an instrument when placed in the hands of a ...

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Like many non-Western musicians transplanted to Europe or North America, Mamadou Diabate has collaborated with artists from a variety of styles. Diabate's ensemble, which performed in Washington ...

In conversation with balafon player Mamadou Diabate ahead of his performance in the city Born into a Griot family in Burkina Faso, known for their tradition of practising storytelling and music ...

The kora—a West African harp with twenty-one strings and a gourd resonator—is more than an instrument when placed in the hands of a master like Mamadou Diabate; it's a means for storytelling, a tool ...

Only the second solo album from kora master Toumani Diabate, The Mande Variations pays tribute to influences both centuries old and of a more recent vintage, with brilliant, beautiful results.

Douga Mansa is a feast of absolutely solo, West African instrumental virtuosity and improvisatory flair. ‘Live’ in the studio, Mamadou Diabate plays kora - a 21-string harp/lute. As a griot ...

Toumani Diabaté, who has died aged 58 after a short illness, was one of the finest African musicians of the past few decades; known as “the king of the kora”, he revelled in fusing his native ...

Djan Djan is the freely available, expanded version of the wonderful CD by guitarist Jeff Lang, tabla maestro Bobby Singh and mind-boggling kora player Mamadou Diabate.