The latest entries on my other blog at: http://www.myspace.com/elisavet_radio
include a short story on Bassekou Kouyate, a musician from Mali who plays the ngoni, a West African desert lute that sounds amazing. Even though he’s been playing music for many years and worked with Toumani Diabaté, Ali Farka Touré and Youssou N’dour, it is only sometime last year that we started hearing of his own solo debut album Segu Blue and his fantastic music. The blog also includes details of how to access the radio feature I have done about him, his music and the griot traditions of Mali online. The programme aired on radio yesterday, but is available for another 29 days on the internet.
My second story on the same blog is about Rihanna’s song Umbrella and its many different versions of that R’n'B hit from last summer.
Enjoy the read and have a good week!
Elisavet Sotiriadou
Elisavet
How many blogs do you need, eh?
Let me know next time this fella is playing in London, he sounds great. Been listening to another great Malian musician called Yoro Sidibe recently – very raw yet very hypnotic.