Kene Bo. Eh Ya Ye official video Trio Da Kali unites three outstanding musicians from the Mande culture of southern Mali who come from a long line of distinguished griots hereditary musicians. Formed of voice, balafon and bass ngoni, the Trio aim to bring a contemporary twist to ancient and neglected repertoires.
David Harrington , Kronos' artistic director and founder, enthuses that the album is "one of the most beautiful Kronos has ever done". Da Kali means "to give a pledge" - in this case to a musical heritage that dates back to the time of Sunjata Keita , founder of the great Mali empire in the early 13th century.
The line-up of balafon xylophone bass ngoni lute and female singer is also based on ancient tradition, although the trio format and its repertoire is now an endangered species in contemporary Malian music. All three Da Kali members come from celebrated hereditary musical families, and were brought together as a griot "super-group" by Dr.
While the nineteenth century slave trade, the decline of the Mande empire, and the establishment of European colonialism changed the role and habits of griots, these storytellers always played a prominent role in Mande societies. Griots provided music, dance, the recital of genealogies, and praise for heroic deeds at religious and social ceremonies in Mali and across West Africa.
Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, then, the griot has served as historian, storyteller, musician, and religious and social mediator. Such strong hereditary structures among griot families have helped to establish a coherent repertoire of stories, practices, and instruments for griots to use.
The balafon a hammered key xylophone , kora a string bridge harp , and ngoni a lute often claimed to be a forerunner to the banjo have been passed down among generations of griots and are thought to be their exclusive cultural inheritance.
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