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Papa Skaliente Skajazz	Mars Mushrooms transparent eyeball
Zahradnik/Kapitanova The Alchemy of Life	Orange Winds Dahab Walk
Jobarteh-Kunda Ali Heja	Various Artists African Artists Hand in Hand
Ilona Maria Hilliges Mit den Augen der Leopardin	Jeli Moussa Sissoko Kora Music from Mali Bamba Lejè
Orak naa naa Oud & Piano	Ashitey Nsotse & Kassoum Traoré Bush Taxi from Bamako to Accra From Bamako to Accra

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* * *   bibiafrica news on our new website: www.bibiafrica-records.com - new CDs: Argile - filefola / the flute album; The Art of Jenbe Drumming - The Mali tradition Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 with Solos of Drissa Kone will be published together with "The Jenbe Realbook Vol. 2" and the complete transcriptions of the solos in February 2008 Link: www.bibiafrica-records.com

* * *   Like to hear the new Argile-CD "filefola"? Link: www.myspace.com/argileworldmusic

* * *   worldiscoveries about - Ballake Sissoko - Kora Music from Mali:
"(...) BALLAKE is a very important cd in the history of West African music. students will be referring to it for many years to come: it's a cornerstone 'must' for any serious West African collection." Read the complete review:

Link: worlddiscoveries - USA

* * *   New review about Mars Mushrooms "Transparent Eyeball" by Kenny Bohlin
Friday, December 02, 2005 at Glidemagazine - US!
Read:
Link: Glidemagazine

* * *   Music-Journalist Harold Bongo wrote about Nsotse/Traore's "Bushtaxi from Bamako To Accra"-CD in the African Musical Page of ReggaeNewsMagazine:

BUSH TAXI FROM ACCRA TO BAMAKO
Nii Ashitey Nsotse: Tapping African drum.
Kassoum Traore.
The album titled Bush Taxi from Bamako to Accra featuring two of West Africa’s champion crafts men. (Nii Ashitey Nsotse and Kassoum Traore) with “Drumming and uplifting tones from the natural African traditional drums in unity”. What is interesting with the album; is the fact that the two African musicians are from great African drumming family backgrounds in Mali, Ghana and La Cote d`IVoire. Not surprising about such musical unity as the name Ghana also comes from the dreaded Mali Empire of Mansa Musa fame .These master drummers have harmonised their art to play and fused in rhythmic language composing an album which will force you to dance, jog and swing to the sounds and melodies. I call it “The Bush musical therapy”. Nii Ashietey Nsotse the best drummer from Avennor in Accra plays and creates the “Kpanlogo drums”, Dondoon from Nigeria, and the bells instrument with Kassoum Traore from La Cote d’Ivoire is a totalitarian Djembe specialist. With the future of world music seated in West Africa, one can see the potential of the album the Bush man’s Taxi is travelling not only from Accra to Bamako, but to Cairo through to the heart of the Zulu lands and further across the oceans to the rest of the world . Recommending tracks on this Tamtam album are as follows: Tracks 3 “Travelling Together” & 4 “Conversation” are for brain storming. Tracks 2 “Accra”, 5 “Spirit” & 6 Arrival should be played for spiritual purposes. Track1 “Energy” & 7 “Welcome Highlife” for fitness and tracks 9 “Nama” &10 “Fula” are meant to revere our ancestral worship. Check out www.Bibiafrica.de for more authentic African stuff.
By Harold Bongo
RNM Senior correspondent.

Link: ReggaeNewsMagazine

* * *   Very interesting website of Musicjournalist Global Mojo, including CD-reviews, specials about Miriam Makeba and Linda Hopkins - check out: Link: Global Mojo

* * *   Some more infos, fotos etc. about Jobarteh Kunda: Link: Jobarteh Kunda

* * *   You can now order some of bibiafrica-CDs also in CZ! Contact: POHODLI - Distribuce CD a DVD
Benediktska 7,
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Po-Pa: 11-19, So: 10-16
tel/fax: 224827026
pohodli@seznam.cz
Some reviews of bibiafrica-CDs in Czech-language have been published by Jiri Moravcic at world-music.cz - read: Link: www.world-music.cz

* * *   The 12/2004 - issue of "ReggaeNewsMagazine" published a 2-pages Portrait/Interview withTormenta Jobarteh, bandleader of "Jobarteh Kunda". The ReggaeNewsMagazine can be ordered at: Link: ReggaeNewsMagazine

* * *   USA: World Discoveries July 2004 Jobarteh Kunda cds - Bibiafrica        
The Jobarteh family is a large, respected family of Jails or Griots in the Manding families of West Africa, and Kunda is the Manding word for family or clan.
Strangely, the co-leader of the group, Tormenta Jobarteh, was not born into the family: he's originally from Germany - it's finally happening, we now have 'African' bands co-founded by Westerners who traveled to Africa in the 1980s and 90s to study or apprentice under African musicians. (...) "The eight-piece combo do a very good job of bringing traditional Manding music of the Gambia into the modern world without losing the feel of the original.  Tormenta Jobarteh plays kora and talking drum amazingly well for a person who grew up in Munich, and his co-leader Mori Dioubate plays balafon (marimba) and guitar.
On their second album ALI HEJA, the group takes a great leap forward with a couple of personnel changes: guitarist Teddy Toure brings a true late-20th century African sound to the band - very professional now; not so experimental as before.
(...) the group vocals (...) are truly wonderful (...). This is a band  to watch out for!
Link: World Discoveries

* * *   bibiafrica CDs are available now also in England and are distributed by Discovery records Ltd. - You can order in the UK via Stern's Music: Link: Stern's Music

* * *   Hello everybody in the US - if you want to get bibiafrica-CDs, you'll find them at www.qualiton.com (label:Argile) or at www.amazon.com. Sona Diabate & Argile have been featured also in the August-issue of "Global Rhythm Magazine" on their CD-compilation. Link: Qualiton

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