Afel Bocoum / Kimsy Bocoum / Hama Sankare - I Sang a Lot for Mali (from 'Every Song Has Its End')

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EVERY SONG HAS ITS END: SONIC DISPATCHES FROM TRADITIONAL MALI
Release Date: April 1st, 2016
Glitterbeat Records
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Bamako-based producer/educator Paul Chandler has been documenting the sonic and cultural complexities of Malian traditional music for more than a decade and “Every Song Has Its End” is an out-of-time, visceral collection of sounds from Chandler’s unparalleled archive.
Over the past few years, accompanied by a recording engineer and a video-maker, Chandler has ventured to off-the-grid villages and crossroad towns all across the vast Malian landscape. Through a network of long-nurtured local contacts this small team has sought out practicing traditional musicians and their under-documented and often endangered musics. Immersive and exhilarating, these field recordings and videos give us a privileged glimpse into the intricacies of the Malian musical experience.
The tracks on “Every Song Has Its End” are in fact as varied as the land that they come from. The haunting modulations of the mostly female Group Ekanzam and the spiky, electrified drone of Super Onze were both recorded in Mali’s remote and embattled northeastern desert region. Conversely, the hypnotic, pulsing sounds of the Mianka Cultural Troupe’s elk horns (buru) and Ibrahim Traore’s warrior harp (bolon) have been recorded more than 1,500 kilometres away in Mali’s more verdant southern hill country. Some of the musicians are playing music that is tied to a specific traditional caste or village function. The declamatory “hunters” music of Sidiki Coulibaly and the “cultivator” balafon excursions of Kassoun Bagayoko are examples of this. And one track in particular, Sigui lé (It’s the Wild Buffalo) from the Nioguébougoula Cultural Troupe, seems to operate in a realm beyond mere music. The recording is a layered, 3D window into traditional village life, the “audience” and the “performers” interacting and fusing in a way that upends contemporary musical hierarchies.
While it is ultimately impossible for us to fully grasp the cultural context and depth of the recordings on “Every Song Has Its End: Sonic Dispatches from Traditional Mali,” it also seems nearly impossible not to be hooked in by the mesmeric sound culture that they mirror.
Without doubt, this is Malian music at its finest.

[@youssoufdiakite8175]

CA me touche mon frere Afel Bocoum tout ce que vous dites est vraie que Dieu vous benie et benie le Mali

[@ramatamamadou8529]

min yeeti Afel Bocoum merci pour ton Talen ca berce tt les Africains une peulh du Niger

[@adamougarba1621]

Je suis Nigérien mais au plus profond de mon cœur et de la sensibilité africaine, je me sens Malien, je suis Malien. Axel Bocoum je te salue et te respecte, mon frère, mon ami, mon compatriote.

[@rokiasangare7536]

Le Mali 🇲🇱 t’aime bien aussi. Vive AES

[@ramatamamadou8529]

c juste Afel la musique , le son en un mot c pour que les Etres Vibratoires que ns sommes Vibrent au plus haut de notre Dimention Divine

[@TolkienLM]

Je suis Éthiopien, votre discours ainsi que votre musique me touche énormément, merci 1000 fois Monsieur Afel Bocoum.

[@fouseynicisse6632]

Je suis fulani du centre du mali. Je vous aime et aime tous ce qui viens de l Éthiopie et de l Érythrée aussi. Musique. Films. Hélas je ne comprend absolument rien. Mais cela ne m empêche de regarder des films et autres emissions de l e thiopies. Et je ne suis ps du tout seul.

[@mbellotukur]

Mali needs this song that never before. It’s sad to see the land of great griots in turmoil.

[@mohamedtoure1634]

Je suis tout à fait d'accord lorsqu'il dit le son de l'instrument que joue Tchimsi est satanique, Il a parfaitement raison que ça joue sur l'esprit des gens, ça peut nous mettre dans un état secondaire à l'instant,

[@ramatamamadou8529]

au fait c quoi le Satan c notre cote Ombre tt le potentiel divin , l´inconsient en ns que l´on doit prendre en main afin de l´experimenter et l´integrer en nous . le Satan personnage des religions dites revelees n´est rien d´autres que l´archange puissant qui a recu le role de mettre les Epreuves qui ns permettent d´etre Transformer devant nous . si nous reussissons nous muttons a une dimention plus haute de gloire en gloire jusqu´a la Perfection

[@ramatamamadou8529]

si on perd notre culture , on perd nos Ames

[@PalenqueRecords]

excellent, we have to fight for roots music

[@ramatamamadou8529]

le son guerrit les Ames et la dance libere nos ames de la matiere ds laquelle elles se st Incarnees

[@alanbralan9670]

5:11 I love their happiness

[@inamacalin1]

this is exactly what is happening in my country Somalia. we lost our culture, our music, our religion nothing is left only people with a dead brain. there is a saying when a nation loses honest leaders they first lose their music, then religion, culture then identity and lastly the lands they live. I hope that doesn't happen to us africans again like what happened in Pharaohs, nubia, aksum, cadal. may Allah help us and protect us from the evil

[@Daash27]

Islam or religion is not good for any nation and I want you to challenge me on that. Every other point you made is valid though.

[@derwinbeasley8998]

I agree with you sir. The possible was with you

[@mbellotukur]

Great.

[@derwinbeasley8998]

It is possible for you to use all the right words and when you use another language explain it as it will be your name, explaining with power, in gods, as he is in you, then rest. Live long