The rest of his section is made up of keyboards, marimba, acoustic guitar, African kora and percussion, with Gospel choir to come. |
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Despite opening with a kora, the arrangement stays quite close to the original. |
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Every one of the 13 songs boasts a winning tune and there are subtle surprises everywhere, such as the kora on the glorious Adje Dad. |
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Winners of the Kora awards, named after a West African stringed instrument, received cash prizes and a replica of a kora. |
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The initial contact point for me was kora music, one of the primary instruments of Manding culture. |
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Tomorrow night from 8.30 pm, Gambian outfit Bajaly Souso, featuring a kora player and artists from the Mandinka culture, perform. |
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And the tinkle of kora and the woody tones of the balafon xylophone are skillfully combined with the sounds of an Egyptian orchestra. |
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I've done a lot of research into traditional African instruments, the kora, the balafon, the gembe, the flute. |
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So it's really a kora album, with Ali only occasionally soloing or adding the odd spoken word comment. |
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Thus the kora and balo are played exclusively by male jeli, and karinya, an idiophone, is played only by jelimuso. |
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His music is an accessible blend of African drums, mouth harp, flute, kalimba, kora and several other instruments. |
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The traditional kora, a stringed calabash instrument, symbolizes the singing poet tradition in the country. |
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The rhythmic, all-acoustic backing is provided by kora, balafon, and Djelimady's guitar, and against this the singers swap their declamatory stories and praise songs. |
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He was already established as a kora and balafon player in Africa. |
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The album's music was premiered at last year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival and it also features stray global elements, aspects of Indonesian gamelan and Malian kora music. |
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One composition may highlight the possibilities of the balafon whilst another concentrates on the ngoni or Kora. |
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The man pounced at Kora, the attacker continuing to growl angry curses and words too low for anyone to hear. |
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In conformance with his theory, he chose Kora, who was indeed beautiful in her youth, as his life partner. |
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Kora player Ballake Sissoko and master cellist Vincent Segal present At Peace, a sublime selection of songs composed by Sissoko and produced by Vincent Segal. |
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