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Track Listing
1. Aly Kawele
2. Sarala
3. Maningafoly
4. Tounia Kanibala
5. Komidiara
6. Fantague
7. Make
8. Walidi Ya
9. Soundjata
10. Hank Miri
11. Hadja Fadima
12. Moriba Ka Foly
Album Notes
Personnel: Hank Jones (piano); Cheick-Tidiane Seck (vocals, marimba, Hammond B-3 organ, doum-doum, tambourine, hand claps, eggs, wooden sticks, guita, cabasa, bell-tree).
The Mandinkas: Ousmane Kouyate (vocals, guitar); Manian Damba, Tom Diakite, Assitan "Mama" Keita (vocals, percussion); Amina Annabi, Kasse-Mady Diabate, Fatoumata "Mama" Kouyate (vocals); Aly Wague (flute); Moriba Koita (n'goni); Djely-Moussa Conde (kora); Lansine Kouyate (balafon); Manfila Kante, Diely-Moussa Kouyate (guitar); Eric Vinceno (acoustic bass); Cesar Anot (bass, hand claps, background vocals); Sekou Diabate (bass); Jorge Amorim (doum-doum, cabulete, conga, eggs, percussion); Moussa Sissokho (djembes, tama); Mare Sanogo (djembes, doum-doum).
Recorded at Studios Guillaume Tell, Suresnes-Paris, France in April 1995. Includes liner notes by Macodou Ndiaye, Jean-Philippe Allard, Cheick-Tidiane Seck.
Industry Reviews
...His crisp, supple piano phrases mesh nicely with the organic Mandingo grooves set forth by Malian Cheick-Tidiane Seck. It's a happy, natural marriage, tracing a root system of jazz. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (08/09/1996)
...Jones' gentle, storytelling piano neatly suits the rumbling sweetness of this music, and there is no apparent translational hurdle between the jazz and Mandingo idioms, underscoring the common ground of jazz and its African ancestry...
JazzTimes (12/01/1996)
3 Stars - Good - ...SARALA goes heavy on beautiful, sun-drenched African music (lots of kora, percussion, vocals and buoyant guitar)...
Down Beat (10/01/1996)
...His crisp, supple piano phrases mesh nicely with the organic Mandingo grooves set forth by Malian Cheick-Tidiane Seck. It's a happy, natural marriage, tracing a root system of jazz. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (08/09/1996)
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