Sona Diabaté - Girls Of Guinea FLAC

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Credits

• Adapted By – Sona Diabaté
• Arranged By – Demba Camara
• Composed By – Sona Diabaté
• Guitar – Sekou "Bembeya" Diabaté
• Lead Vocals – Sona Diabaté
• Recorded By, Mixed By – Günter Gretz
• Twelve-String Guitar – Demba Camara
• Vocals – Fatoumata "N'Gadi" Bangoura, Sayon Diabaté

Notes

All compositions by Sona Diabaté, except Horro, trad., adapted by Sona Diabaté. All arrangements by Demba Camara.

Produced by African Music, Frankfurt, with a lot of help from Productions Bolibana, Paris.

Mixed and recorded directly on 2-track videotape by Günter Gretz in Paris on 12 September 1988.

This record is dedicated to El Hadj Djeli Fodé Diabaté (the father of Sona, Sayon & Sekou who died 2 October 1988).

M'boré - the youth of the old days was different from the youth of today: I talk about you, Marie Touré, in your beautiful boubou embroidered with gold...
Koloman - we, the griots, are not the only ones doing their duties. Women always pounded the millet; men always cultivated the fields; the blacksmith always shaped the iron; the griots always praise the industrious...
M'boté - happiness is back in our beautiful village: young and old, women and children, let's celebrate! Let's not listen to our enemy, he wont be satisfied anyway...
Kankele-ti - I will be always following the man who is treating me well, wherever he goes. I just can't sit down here in Guinea without him. This man gives me pleasures I can't tell about. Girls of Guinea, search in all directions for your love...
Horro - the honesty of a man is reflected in his deeds and in his words, since medieval times griots sing about honest men...
Nassannaba - Since I met Princess Nassannaba Touré I don't bother anyore to run back and forth. If this lady, who has done so much for me, calls for me, I come for help, whether her call comes from Conakry, Bamako, Abidjan, Dakar or even from Paris. What an honour to be called by Mamy Wata, the queen of the oceans...

Album

Listen free to Sona Diabaté Girls of Guinea M'Bore, Koloman and more. 6 tracks 39:35. Sona Diabaté was born in Tiro, Guinea in 1959. Her father, the famous singer Hadj Djeli Fodé Diabaté, passed on their family's music legacy by teaching Sona to sing and to play the balafon. After attending school for several years, Sona began her career as a griot singer. Her music training included singing with and learning from Miriam Makeba, who was living in Guinea at the time. Track Listing. Vocals Sona Diabaté Guitar Sekou Bembeya Diabaté Recorded By, Mixed By Günter Gretz Twelve-String Guitar. This man gives me pleasures I can't tell about. Girls of Guinea, search in all directions for your love. Horro - the honesty of a man is reflected in his deeds and in of Guinea. Sona Diabate Format: Audio CD. Girls of Guinea. by Sona Diabate. Released: January 1, Guide Album. Sona Diabaté: Girls of Guinea Rather than romanticizing a righteous African sister, take her for a griot who's good at her job. In a nation where preserving musical treasure has been a point of socialist pride, her adept, folky elaborations avoid the appearance of self-consciousness-the closely related guitar figures underlying these songs are graceful, welcome, inevitable. But she's a trifle too dutiful to put much passion into her righteousness. AlbumsZIP Folk, World, & Country Sona Diabaté - Girls Of Guinea. Singer: Sona Diabaté. Album: Girls Of Guinea. Genre: Folk, World, & Country. mp3 album size: 1787 mb. ape album size: 1414 mb. wma album size . The younger sister of Sekou Diabate - legendary guitarist from 'Bembeya Jazz', Sona was born into a musical family and had learnt to play guitar and bala xylophone before she started singing. She spent two years playing with Miriam Makeba, whilst serving as a member of the Guinea police force 'Gendermerie'. CD: SONA DIABATE Girls of Guinea NM. US 18,00. Kaira, Diabate, Toumani. RARE, SEALED Toumani Diabate Symmetric Orchestra Boulevard de I'Independance CDs. US 10,00. CD: SEKOUBA BAMBINO DIABATE Le Destin Out Of Africa Series NM. US 50,00. RARE OOP Adama Diabate CD Jako Baye AFRICAN 1995 Stern's Africa MALI Toumani D. National orchestras were set up in Guinea and members automatically acquired the status of civil servants. Meanwhile, each individual region of Guinea organised its own federal orchestra. The orchestras were encouraged to compete on a regular basis, coming together at a national contest which involved pre-selection auditions across the country before a grand final in Conakry. Meanwhile, the state-owned label Syliphone played a supportive role in this elaborate national structure