Rail Band - Belle Epoque 3 - Dioba

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From http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32462

[quote]Like its predecessors Belle Epoque Vol. 1 - Soundiata (Sterns, 2007) and Belle Epoque Vol. 2 - Mansa (Sterns, 2008), Dioba presents a selection of tracks recorded by the Rail Band between 1970 and 1983. Two are from the Keita years, most are from the mid 1970s, with Kante featured on six tracks and Ganessy on five. An entrancing thread running through all the tracks recorded from 1972 onwards is lead guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, a brilliantly imaginative player whose style incorporates cascading, kora-like, single-note runs, jazzy chorded passages and laid back savannah rock, all of it fed through an echo chamber variously set between five and 11. Tounkara has the transporting lyricism of Baobab\'s lead guitarist, Barthelemy Attisso, but places it on a broader stylistic canvas.

Dioba showcases the Rail Band in all its splendid moods and colours: from Keita\'s spiritualised and virtuosic \"Maki\" and \"Soyomba,\" through Ganessy\'s fierce going on feral \"Kadia Kandian\" and \"Djamban,\" the re-Africanised Stax-Volt soul of Kante\'s \"Mariba Yassa\" and his mesmeric take on Afrobeat, \"Sinsimba,\" spacier and nimbler than originator Fela Kuti\'s style, on to the rumba-infused \"Foliba\" and \"Talassa.\" Two 1982 tracks, \"Diby\" and \"Diabate,\" feature the psychedelicised keyboards of Alfred Coulibaly, a late but valuable addition to the line-up, inhabiting adjacent territory to that being explored by the American keyboard player Marco Benevento on Me Not Me (The Royal Potato Family, 2009), two and a half decades later.

Such sumptuous diversity makes it hard to stereotype the Rail Band, which creates an artistic bonus but a marketing challenge. Partly as a consequence, their cousins Orchestra Baobab have to date made the bigger impact, both with their heritage recordings and as a reformed band on the international festival and concert circuit. Anyone who loves Baobab, but who has yet to discover the Rail Band, should do themselves a favour and check Mali\'s \"belle epoque\" finest out. A feast of magnificent music awaits you.[/quote]

Tracks CD 1

01 - Bedianomogo (Sékou Kanté)
02 - Sinsimba (Mory Kanté)
03 - Kadia Kandian (Magan Ganessy)
04 - Wale Numa Lombaliya (Mory Kanté)
05 - Diby (Sékou Kouyaté)
06 - Maki (Salif Keita)
07 - Djamban (Magan Ganessy)
08 - Mady Guindo (Magan Ganessy)
09 - Den Nadiya (Mory Kanté)

Tracks CD 2

01 - Kibaru (Magan Ganessy)
02 - Mariba Yassa (Mory Kanté)
03 - Dioba (Magan Ganessy)
04 - Tidiane Kone (Djelimady Sissoko)
05 - Diabate (Lanfia Diabaté)
06 - Foliba (Sékou Kanté)
07 - Soyomba (Lanfia Diabaté)
08 - Karitea (Mory Kanté)
09 - Jurukan (Mory Kanté)
10 - Talassa (Lanfia Diabaté)

Ripped from my own CDs.

Included:

Individual flac tracks, numbered, named, tagged
m3u playlists
cd.toc for burning with cdrdao
300x300 pixel folder.jpg for media player cover art
300 DPI scans of booklet, tray, CDs

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