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████ GENRE...[ Ethnic CAT#....[ GBCD110 ████
████ LABEL...[ Glitterbeat ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 44:14 REL.DATE[ 04.10.2021 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 09 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 101,40 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Tamala 06:02 ████
████ 02 Atahar 05:14 ████
████ 03 Sambalama 05:05 ████
████ 04 Instrumental 04:51 ████
████ 05 Kola Cisse 04:10 ████
████ 06 Adounya 04:35 ████
████ 07 Fondo 05:48 ████
████ 08 Sambamila 04:05 ████
████ 09 Terey Kongo 04:24 ████
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████ TOTAL: 44:14 ████
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████ https://samba-toure.bandcamp.com/album/binga ████
████ ████
████ The legendary Malian singer/guitarist returns ████
████ with his most personal and immersive album to ████
████ date. Intimately recorded with a small ████
████ band, "Binga" dives deep into Samba's Songhoy ████
████ roots. ████
████ ████
████ Moody Sahelian atmospheres. Cautionary tales. ████
████ Hopes for better days. ████
████ ████
████ During the 15th and 16th centuries the Songhoy ████
████ people ruled the largest empire in Africa. It ████
████ stretched across the entire western Sahel, ████
████ famed for the glory that was Timbuktu. People ████
████ called it the city of gold, known across the ████
████ world as a centre of culture and learning. ████
████ ████
████ But thereÆs another place that lies a little ████
████ under a hundred kilometres south of that ████
████ history, one whose name few people know. Binga ████
████ is the region that encompasses the vast space ████
████ below the Saharan desert in Mali. This is where ████
████ guitarist and singer Samba Toure grew up, and ████
████ it still owns his heart û Binga is the title of ████
████ his fourth Glitterbeat album. ████
████ ôI never left Binga,ö he explains. ôI went to ████
████ [the Malian capital] Bamako in my youth to find ████
████ some work and help my family. Even if itÆs ████
████ complicated or dangerous to travel to the north ████
████ now, itÆs still my homeland and always will be. ████
████ I have a house there. ItÆs my culture and my ████
████ heritage. This is my region and it felt right ████
████ to name this album after it. ItÆs pure Songhoy ████
████ music.ö ████
████ ████
████ With Binga, Toure has made sure those roots ████
████ show proud and strong. ████
████ ôI wanted to put them in the forefront, to go ████
████ back to something more natural and closer to ████
████ the band on stage, to show how we really are. ████
████ It was important to me. This isnÆt an ████
████ influence, itÆs my natural style.ö ████
████ With his bass player having moved to the US, it ████
████ was a stripped-down combo of guitar, ngoni, ████
████ calabash and other percussion that entered the ████
████ studio to record Binga. The result captures the ████
████ lean tautness of the sound. The only addition ████
████ on a few tracks was harmonica, but that wasnÆt ████
████ ôso far from the traditional fiddle sound we ████
████ used to have on some albums, it accompanies the ████
████ music in the very same way.ö ████
████ That paring-back to the bare bones gave the ████
████ musicians space to create what Toure calls ôa ████
████ communion between the instruments.ö As always, ████
████ the groove is the foundation, the circling, ████
████ mesmerising riffs of ToureÆs guitar and the ████
████ heartbeat rhythm of the calabash. ItÆs ████
████ relentless, mesmerising, and the voice and the ████
████ commentary of the ngoni revolve around it. This ████
████ is music without embellishment, the very ████
████ essence of Songhoy. ████
████ ████
████ ôOur music naturally has very few solos,ö Toure ████
████ explains. ôI think theyÆre a very western ████
████ thing. I've never played very long ones and I ████
████ feel more like a creator of songs than a ████
████ guitarist singer. The ngoni is also reserved ████
████ here, compared to previous albums. Each one ████
████ accompanies the others, simply.ö ████
████ ████
████ The result is stark, graceful, even austere at ████
████ times. But that only emphasises its power. ████
████ Instru-mental flourishes appear, but theyÆre ████
████ only brief, sharp flashes, like the ████
████ conversation between guitar and ngoni at the ████
████ end of ôSambalama.ö The focus is kept squarely ████
████ on the power of the songs û all sung in ████
████ Sonhgoy, unlike previous albums. ████
████ Toure has never shied away from describing the ████
████ realities of life in his homeland. Mali, he ████
████ says, has gone from ôone coup d'etat to ████
████ another, from one rebellion to another, from ████
████ one inter-ethnic massacre to another, nothing ████
████ has changed, and I would even say that ████
████ everything has worsened in recent years. Then ████
████ the health and school systems are very, very ████
████ behind, nothing is being doneàö The darkness ████
████ swirls, impossible to ignore. HeÆs written ████
████ about the situation before, on Albala and ████
████ Gandadiko, but little has changed. ████
████ ████
████ ôôSambamilaö has this kind of mood, because I ████
████ feel so sad that IÆm still not able to go to my ████
████ village in full security. And ôFondoö covers ████
████ something I sing about in all my albums, the ████
████ immigration of the youth for what they think to ████
████ be a better life, whether it's to another ████
████ country, or simply to the capital. In ôAtahar,ö ████
████ I sing about the malfunctioning of the Malian ████
████ school system, which between repeated strikes ████
████ and closures due to COVID is in a lamentable ████
████ state. I didnÆt have a chance to go to school ████
████ as a child and it makes me sad that today, 40 ████
████ years later, the Malian authorities still ████
████ neglect our children, our only wealth and hope ████
████ for the future.ö ████
████ ████
████ ToureÆs words are as lean and muscular as his ████
████ music on Binga. ThereÆs the force of the heart ████
████ behind them. A communion, not just of ████
████ instruments, but also voices, the power of the ████
████ Songhoy soul. When he looks at the area where ████
████ he grew up, he doesnÆt see anything bucolic, ████
████ only a vision of the poverty that remains. ████
████ ████
████ ôIn many villages they still live like in the ████
████ old days, sometimes walking kilometres to get a ████
████ single bucket of water, there are a lot living ████
████ without electricity,ö he points out. ôI don't ████
████ wish them a simpler life, but on the contrary, ████
████ more development and future prospects for their ████
████ children.ö ████
████ Yet the album is far from shadowed and ████
████ sorrowful. ôSambalamaö is a joyful statement of ████
████ standing tall and hoping for better days to ████
████ come while on ôKola Cisseö Toure offers a ████
████ praise song the memory of the late head of the ████
████ Malian Football Federation. Two old Songhoy ████
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████ culture; they are all the parts of who I am.ö ████
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