Label: Frikyiwa
Jazz
Recorded in southern Mali in the village of Farakala, Trilok Gurtu’s new album is a unique and surprising production. Having explored for some time the similarities between Indian and African music, this is the first time that he has actually recorded in the sub-Saharan bush. The result is a subtle and deep Afro-Indian combination arrived at through combining south-Malian percussive styles with the rhythmic influences of his own Indian heritage. The originality of tracks like "Santour", "Di Blues", "Dougoukolo", and "Roots No Fruits" testify to the success of this mix.
Profound, sensual, upbeat and liberating, this is an album of instinctive yet well developed styles that, as a result of Trilok Gurtu's innovative styles and erudition, escapes the cliché of being labeled just another fusion album…
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Gurtu is a boundary-stretching Indian drummer who has done everything from playing with John McLaughlin and Pat Metheny to taking the late Collin Walcott's place in Oregon. The Frikyiwa family are a group of very gifted and imaginative Malian guitarists, drummers, and vocalists from the same part of the world as Ali Farka Toure. This album was recorded in their "nomadic studio" in the desert, and it's mind-blowingly beautiful. Every track creates a different vibe -- from very spare guitar with female vocals to stuff that almost sounds like the music in David Byrne's dreams -- but it all feels wonderfully warm and unified. It's haunting, subtle, visionary music. Any fan of the gentler, moodier side of African music should pick this album up right away.
By Stephen Silberman.
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Trilok Gurtu is best known for his percussion work melding Indian music and jazz. This time he takes on an entirely new challenge, working with West African musicians from the Frikyawa label. On the surface, the two styles don't go together, but in the hands of Gurtu and the others -- kora, electric kora, calabash, and ngoni -- it becomes something of a trance feast with its feet quite firmly in African soil (all the more surprising since Gurtu wrote all but one of the cuts here). Interestingly, Gurtu's presence throughout is largely understated, leaving the spotlight to the others, most especially singer Hadja Kouyate, whose vocal and tonal range is nothing less than stunning. The percussion is often simply atmosphere, as on "Mil-Jul," but that's fine. Gurtu is a past master at knowing what to put in or leave out to enhance a song. Here he proves that imagination and good taste transcend continents.
By Chris Nickson, All Music Guide.
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Ngou Bagayoko- Guitar, Background Vocal
Hadja Kouyate- Vocals, Background Vocal
Ali Boulo Santo- Vocals, Kora
Trilok Gurtu- Percussion, Shekere, Balafon
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01. Agne Yano 3:37
02. Mil-jul 5:21
03. Dhine Dhadhin 6:27
04. Doukhontou 4:13
05. Kalpana 5:36
06. Swapan 5:10
07. Roots No Fruits 5:40
08. Soumou 4:21
09. Di Blues Indian 3:58
10. Farakala 3:35
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