Koma [Digipak]
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Album: Koma [Digipak]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Ni See Ay Ga Done (It Is to You That I Sing) More Info...
2)    Maïmouna More Info...
3)    Aïy Faadji (I Am Nostalgic) More Info...
4)    Woy Tiladio (Beautiful Woman, Goddess of Water) More Info...
5)    Koïma (The Pink Dune of Koïma) More Info...
6)    Ishi Tanmaha (They No Longer Hope) More Info...
7)    A Chacun Sa Chance (To Each His Own Luck) More Info...
8)    Kalaa Ay Makoïy (I Must Go) More Info...
9)    Tondi Karaa (The White Stone) More Info...
10)    Euzo More Info...
 

Album: Koma [Digipak]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Ni See Ay Ga Done (It Is to You That I Sing) More Info...
2)    Maïmouna More Info...
3)    Aïy Faadji (I Am Nostalgic) More Info...
4)    Woy Tiladio (Beautiful Woman, Goddess of Water) More Info...
5)    Koïma (The Pink Dune of Koïma) More Info...
6)    Ishi Tanmaha (They No Longer Hope) More Info...
7)    A Chacun Sa Chance (To Each His Own Luck) More Info...
8)    Kalaa Ay Makoïy (I Must Go) More Info...
9)    Tondi Karaa (The White Stone) More Info...
10)    Euzo More Info...
 
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Performer Notes
  • Personnel: Sidi Tour (vocals, guitar); Oumar Konat (guitar); Lela Ahimidi Gobbi (background vocals).
  • Audio Mixer: Askwell.
  • Recording information: Bamako, Mali (02/2009); Nantes, France (02/2009); Bamako, Mali (03/2009); Nantes, France (03/2009).
  • Arranger: Sidi Tour.
  • Though no relation to his countryman, the late guitarist Ali Farka Tour, he and guitarist-songwriter Sidi Tour, both descend from royal lineages whose respective families didn't accept music as a worthy career. Sidi has done his part to spread the music's unique musical style that bears some similarity to the rhythmically rich American blues of John Lee Hooker and his followers -- though neither he nor Ali Farka Tour were influenced by them. In fact, indirectly, due to the slave trade of the 18th and 19th centuries, it was the other way around. Sidi Tour has been active in his native Gao since the '80s, singing with the Songhai Stars; he fronted other regional dance bands. He cut his first solo album, Hoga, in 1996 and continued both a solo career and as a singer and guitarist for hire until Thrill Jockey issued the informal, acoustic offering Sahel Folk in 2011. That album was recorded over time in informal sessions with friends at his sister's house. Koma was actually recorded in a proper studio with a quintet featuring a second rhythm guitar, a female backing vocalist, the gourd percussion instrument known as a calabash, and the Malian violin called a sokou. The five-note pentatonic scale that designates the Songhai blues tradition is everywhere present here, but the droning blues is animated and percussive, thanks to the calabash and the interplay between the guitars. The drones are accented and undercut by gorgeous melodies on which Tour's vocals are answered and also underscored in unison by Lela Ahimidi Gobbi. The sokou adds a somewhat brittle sonic contrast to the warm tones of the guitars, and besides another harmonic layer, adds a rich rhythmic one as well. These ten cuts, especially jumpers like "Maimouna," "Woy Tiladio," and "A Chacun Sa Chance," are beautifully balanced by more folk-oriented songs such as the title cut and closer "Euz." Still others, such as "Tonid Karaa," accent the deep blues feel of Mali's Songhai tradition gorgeously. Koma is not only an excellent follow-up to Sahel Folk, but goes further in revealing Tour's deep musical roots and offers a wider sense of his longstanding appeal as a guitarist and vocalist from his region as well. ~ Thom Jurek
Professional Reviews
Uncut (p.84) - "Toure's smooth, resonant voice is buttressed by haunting call-and-response female backing vocals, while single-string fiddle and calabash percussion weave ancient rhythmic spells over the insistent patterns of his guitar."

Magnet (p.59) - "Singing gently and insistently in the Songhai tongue, he praises patrons, celebrates the spirits and challenges the powers that be to solve society's problems."
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