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Bola isn't playing guitar, but he's drat good at the two string lute and his singing is incredibly energetic. From awesome tapes from Africa: He is a singer and instrumentalist from Bolgatanga, Ghana who has been putting out tape after tape of ridiculously energetic and thoughtful songs for the last few years. I almost died when I heard this Volume 7 tape for the first time. Bola’s intense Frafra-language vocals, along with his shredding kologo—a two-stringed lute—boosted by bass-heavy, angular keyboard melodies and dance floor-ready drums. I am fascinated by Bola’s take on a traditional instrument and musical style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-3zlHcQZc
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Double posting to add something in a completely different direction than Bola Mouhamodou Lo and His Childrenby theWau Wau Collectif of Senegal, as released by Sahel Sounds Throwback sounds to an older style of songwriting mixed with what comes across as outsider folk as heard through a dream The video is also really phenomenal for HD images of farming and animal husbandry, dedicated to the peasants for all their hard work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57bH_Z_8xsw
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PTSDeedly Do posted:this rocks Yup! Awesome Tapes from Africa posted:Volume 7, which came out in 2009, is just one entry in a brilliant series of recordings Bola has released on CD and cassette. Although he employs a traditional instrument and the age-old mode of griot story-telling, Bola embraces elements of up-to-the-minute mainstream Ghanaian music—drum machines, synths, bone-shaking bass. Inspired by pioneering kologo greats like King Ayisoba, Bola has taken a dynamic instrument used by traditional healers and herbalists to sing to god in search of advice and taken it to futuristic heights.
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Pondex posted:This just came up in my youtube-recs: Doesn't seem to fit the thread theme, unless I'm missing something this is a world-jazz band from Boston.
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