Host DJK drives listeners through the world of African-influenced music – from night clubs in Dakar to festivals in Bahia, from recording studios in Havana to family compounds on the streets of Lagos. We’ll follow the African diaspora to South America, the Caribbean and southern Europe, but never stray far from the beat of the mother continent. From KPSQ-LP, Fayetteville, AR. This week in the Afrosonic Taxi, we explore music centered around and influenced by the musicians of Mali. This land-locked country sometimes seems like the center of the musical universe with songs that are totally modern, but based on a tradition that goes back at least 1,000 years.
1. Ecos de Nyafunke by Andre Sampaio & Os Afromandinga (Brazil/Mali)
2. Djinfa by Mama Sissoko (Mali)
3. Talangoge (Emmene La) by Kandy Guira (Burkina Faso)
4. Negue Negue by Fatoumata Diawara (Mali)
5. Tounga by Kanazo Orkestra feat. Jean-Philippe Rykiel (Burkina Faso/France)
6. I Gne Yele by Adama Yalomba (Mali)
7. Fadjamou by Oumou Sangare (Mali)
8. Jama Ko by Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba (Mali)
9. Fafa by King'n'Doom feat. Thomas Geui & Moustapha Kouyate (Czech Republic/Mali)
10. African Dreams by Sia Tolno (Guinea)
11. Melokane by Modou Toure (Senegal)
12. Nanfoule by Ablaye Cissoko (Senegal)
13. Saarole by Pape et Cheikh (Senegal)