Sourakata Koite: En Hollande - VINYL LP

Sourakata Koite: En Hollande - VINYL LPTitle: En Hollande Artist: Sourakata Koite Label: Awesome Tapes from Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 843563109885 Genre: International Release Date: 2019 01 18 Number of Discs: 1 Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. Sourakata Koite is a Paris dwelling kora player from Senegal. He is a griot, which means he is a story and history teller and singer. He accompanies himself on the kora. The kora is the most representative instrument of Manding music and culture.

Title: En Hollande
Artist: Sourakata Koite
Label: Awesome Tapes from
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 843563109885
Genre: International
Release Date: 2019-01-18
Number of Discs: 1

Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. Sourakata Koite is a Paris-dwelling kora-player from Senegal. He is a griot, which means he is a story- and history-teller and singer. He accompanies himself on the kora. The kora is the most representative instrument of Manding music and culture. It is a harp-lute with 21 strings. The instrument is more than 600 years old and has existed in it's present form for about 400 years. The griots often make their koras themselves, using a great dried gourd, a thick stick and two smaller sticks and a scraped goatskin. In the old days they used strings of skin, but nowadays often plastic fikshingline is used. The kora is held with the last three fingers of each hand at the small sticks on both sides of the strings. The strings are played by both thumbs and forefingers. With one hand the accompanying part is played and with the other the more free melody. Koite has performed in most African countries and also in a great deal of Europe.'

Tracks:
1.1 Seremende
1.2 Ha-Madi
1.3 Moussa
1.4 Kaira
1.5 Djonol
1.6 N'na
1.7 Dioula
1.8 Hadjiatu Mari N'djaye