Songhai
In 1987, the Granada neo-flamenco trio Ketama and Malian kora master Toumani
Diabaté improvised a few notes in a London restaurant. They were so taken with
the result that they decided to make a record. The recording took place in 1989
in a Madrid studio, with guest appearance by English double-bass virtuoso Danny
Thompson. If the term "world music" means anything, it applies to Songhaï.
Musicians from radically different horizons play together for their own
pleasure, without denying their musical past. Ketama's flamenco guitars,
sometimes tinged with rumba, are in perfect symbio...
