Artist: Toumani Diabaté
Title: Discography
Year Of Release: 1987-2017
Genre: Music of Mali, Pop, World music
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Total Time: 19 Albums, 1 EP, 17:51:17 min
Total Size: 2,51 Gb
A master of the kora (21-string West African harp), Toumani Diabaté has brought the traditional music of his native Mali to the attention of an international audience with a series of well-received solo albums and some unlikely, but acclaimed, collaborations. Although he came from a family of musicians, Diabaté (born August 10, 1965) taught himself to play the kora at an early age, as his father, who also played the instrument, was often away touring. He developed a style of playing that, while being strongly rooted in the Malian tradition, is also open to a wide range of other influences, such as jazz and flamenco. He has subsequently sought out other musicians from around the world who are willing to experiment with him, even performing a concert in Amsterdam with a classical harpist. His 1989 debut, Kaira, made history as the first-ever solo kora album to be released. Stark, haunting, and full of breathtaking improvisational flourishes, it made him a star in his homeland and an in-demand performer internationally. In the same year, Songhai, a highly acclaimed collaboration between Diabaté, the Spanish flamenco group Ketama, and British jazz-folk bassist Danny Thompson, also released their acclaimed debut. Over the next six years, Diabaté performed at festivals and concerts all over the globe, doing much to broaden the appeal of the music of Mali, in general, and the kora, in particular. In 1995, a second Songhai album was released, as well as Djelika, on which he led a group of musicians featuring Kélétigui Diabaté (a veteran master of the xylophone-like balafon and no relation to Toumani) and ngoni (a miniature guitar-like stringed instrument) player Basekou Kouyate. He concentrated on performing in Mali over the next few years before releasing New Ancient Strings, his 1999 collaboration with fellow new-generation kora master Ballaké Sissoko. The album was a tribute to their fathers who, nearly 30 years earlier, had released an album of kora duets called Ancient Strings. In the same year, the very highly acclaimed Kulanjan was released. This featured Diabaté, Sissoko, and other fellow Malians, including singer Kassé-Mady Diabaté in a "West Africa meets the blues" collaboration with U.S. guitarist Taj Mahal. To promote the album, these musicians toured internationally at the end of 1999. In 2000, Diabaté performed and recorded with Blur frontman Damon Albarn, when the latter visited Mali as part of an OXFAM project. In the Heart of the Moon, a 2005 collaboration with guitarist Ali Farka Touré, earned Diabaté a Grammy award for Best Traditional World Music Album. It was followed a year later by Boulevard de I'Independence, recorded with his Symmetric Orchestra and part of the same Nick Gold-produced Hotel Mandé Sessions as the Touré collaboration. As his popularity grew, Diabaté became a fixture on the international festival circuit appearing around the world at WOMAD, Glastonbury, Sziget Festival and many more. His 2008 solo kora release, The Mandé Variations, was widely praised by critics and in 2010 he again teamed up with Ali Farka Touré on the album Ali & Toumani. That same year, he was recruited by producer Nick Gold to participate in the Afrocubism project, an album similar in theme to 1997's landmark Buena Vista Social Club which saw musicians from Cuba and Malia collaborating. 2014's Toumani & Sidiki saw Diabaté pairing up with his son Sidiki Diabaté on a set of unaccompanied kora duets. He and Sidiki worked together again in 2017 in collaboration with French rock singer -M- on the eclectic album Lamomali.
ALBUMS:
1987 Kaira (40:31)
1988 Songhai (& Ketama, Danny Thompson) (33:58)
1994 Songhai 2 (Ketama, Jose Soto) (50:04)
1995 Djelika (51:51)
1997 New Ancient Strings (with Ballake Sissoko) (53:26)
1999 Kulanjan (& Taj Mahal) (59:02)
1999 Live at Bremen (& Ballake Sissoko) Bootleg (40:03)
2002 Mali Music (& Damon Albarn, Afel Bocoum And Friends) (57:44)
2002 MALIcool (& Roswell Rudd) (1:00:52)
2005 In the Heart of the Moon (& Ali Farka Toure) (54:40)
2006 Boulevard de l'Independance (Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra) (52:38)
2008 The Mande Variations (57:49)
2009 Ali and Toumani (& Ali Farka Touré) (2010 Vinyl-rip) (59:42)
2009 Ali and Toumani (& Ali Farka Touré) (50:25)
2009 King of the Kora. An introduction (1:58:24)
2012 A Curva Da Cintura (& Arnaldo Antunes, Egdard Scandurra) (55:47)
2014 Live at Bremen (& Sidiki Diabaté) (1:12:52)
2014 Toumani & Sidiki (EP) (& Sidiki Diabate) (21:40)
2014 Toumani & Sidiki (& Sidiki Diabaté) (43:39)
2017 Lamomali (& Sidiki Diabate, Mathieu Chedid) (36:02)
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