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Habib Koité & Bamada — Wassiyé
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MickyLuv
(Scotland)
Posted: Apr 27, 2013 - 13:11
 
Sounds pleasantly in tune to me. A tune I like a lot.
gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 14:28
 
 autoroute25 wrote:
The guitar solo in out of tune. Sorry, could not stand.

 
Playing with a capo?

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 14:26
 
The opening chords are Classical Gas

fuzzy
(GWN)
Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 05:34
 
 sharkey wrote:


English translation: For all the happy fathers, you have just had a daughter who looks very much like your wife. You are blessed now with two wives at home.
 
{#Eek} Wha?

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 12:13
 
 alanthecowboy wrote:

A kora, maybe?  Although, I think it's usually held vertically... I don't know.

 
You usually sit with the cora in front of you on the floor, neck pointing away from you. Never heard of anyone playing one standing, but hey, it's all rock and roll....

sharkey
(Toronto - Ontario - Canada -Just passing through)
Posted: Nov 25, 2012 - 12:29
 
 jt1 wrote:


I don't understand the lyrics either, but I like the sound.

Perhaps some kind soul (with the appropriate skills or resources) would be so kind as to post a translation of the lyrics to help us both understand.
 

English translation: For all the happy fathers, you have just had a daughter who looks very much like your wife. You are blessed now with two wives at home.

bokey
Posted: Nov 25, 2012 - 12:23
 
 autoroute25 wrote:
The guitar solo in out of tune. Sorry, could not stand.

 
 {#Stupid}
Nobody move!Hands in the air!

jt1
Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 04:05
 
 dasfeuer wrote:
I don`t understand :(
 

I don't understand the lyrics either, but I like the sound.

Perhaps some kind soul (with the appropriate skills or resources) would be so kind as to post a translation of the lyrics to help us both understand.

joelbb
Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 16:24
 
 dasfeuer wrote:
I don`t understand :(
 
And if I don't understand... it must be bad! :-)

dasfeuer
(Loading...)
Posted: May 30, 2012 - 10:52
 
I don`t understand :(

ziakut
(The Windy City)
Posted: May 16, 2012 - 09:27
 
Great stuff! Yep. it is!

kickback73
(Peterborough, Ontario)
Posted: Apr 08, 2012 - 13:55
 
I'm just waking up on the couch with my wife still laying down sleeping. What a great song to wake up to on a lazy Sunday

Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 12:02
 
WONDERFUL BAND - INCREDIBLE ALBUM (why always Wassiyè...?)
filled with gem after gem!

Mali' finest - and there are plenty great bands and singers,
male and female!

Boubakar "Kar Kar" Traore and Rokia Traore for example.
Not to forget "Zap Mama" - though they are a bit of another story!

PS
...and what about "GIGI" from Ethiopia?



alanthecowboy
(Lakefield)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 16:00
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
Caught them at the NOLA Jazz and Heritage Fest a few years back. This is pretty mellow, but these guys can rock out, playing scorching runs on an string instrument I've never seen before, held flat at waist level with a drum like sound chamber and long neck held out perpendicular to the body. Anybody know what that might be?

 
A kora, maybe?  Although, I think it's usually held vertically... I don't know.


Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 11:38
 
 jhorton wrote:

Just step back from the pipe.
 
Or pass it to me. {#Roflol}

jhorton
Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 21:09
 
 autoroute25 wrote:
The guitar solo in out of tune. Sorry, could not stand.
 
Just step back from the pipe.

LowPhreak
(United Corporate States of Neo-Feudal Amurika, Inc.)
Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 12:39
 
I think Bill & Co. have lapsed into a serious yawn-fest today.

What's next, smooth jazz?

TheMagus
(Memento mori UK)
Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 12:37
 
Thanks to RP now aware of this amazing musician and have purchased many of his excellent compositions.

autoroute25
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 12:37
 
The guitar solo in out of tune. Sorry, could not stand.


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Jun 03, 2011 - 15:26
 
Caught them at the NOLA Jazz and Heritage Fest a few years back. This is pretty mellow, but these guys can rock out, playing scorching runs on an string instrument I've never seen before, held flat at waist level with a drum like sound chamber and long neck held out perpendicular to the body. Anybody know what that might be?


ccwcool
(O-HI-O)
Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 10:08
 
Like it, like it, like it.  Don't know what he's sayin' but it sounds like a smile!{#Bananajam}

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:38
 
 mapman wrote:
Fun.  I like it!  Nice recording quality!
 
Very nice indeed. My taste!!


mapman
(East Coast USA)
Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:37
 
Fun.  I like it!  Nice recording quality!

Delboy77
(Feldkirch, Austria)
Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:34
 
saw these guys live, fantastic band, one the very few concerts i've been to that you didnt need earplugs
and everyone was clearly enjoying it.
BRAVO!

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jan 11, 2011 - 05:10
 
 Stingray wrote:
ALL THIS ALBUMS ARE 10!

In MALI he is a superstar,
and trust me, MALI has hundreds (!)
of great bands and singers!

HABIB is simply incredible!
MUSIC can hardly be better!
 

You will get no argument from me, laddie!{#Cheers}


sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 08:53
 
Yea, these guys can do no wrong!{#Notworthy}

calypsus_1
Posted: Sep 25, 2010 - 17:46
 

Habib Koite & Bamada_0715  by Elle K
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elena_and_leonard/

Habib Koite & Bamada

Copyright All rights reserved



Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco)
Posted: Sep 25, 2010 - 15:27
 
{#Hearteyes}

Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 08:30
 
 albupp wrote:

Habib's music always makes me smile.  


100% agreement. BIG SMILE!

For those who do not his albums,
let me insure you that all (!) songs
on all 4 albums are wonderful!

Not a single filler!!! NOT ONE!

Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 08:27
 
ALL THIS ALBUMS ARE 10!

In MALI he is a superstar,
and trust me, MALI has hundreds (!)
of great bands and singers!

HABIB is simply incredible!
MUSIC can hardly be better!

dyharenas
(Cerro Apoquindo)
Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 08:59
 
Don´t know if it´s the water or something else, but the sweetness of an African voice is something to behold.

calypsus_1
Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 16:07
 

Habib Koité  by Novi O'Magum
Ralph Niels
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralphniels/

Habib Koité. Singer & guitarist from Mali, playing at Festival Mundial, Tilburg (NL).

Copyright All rights reserved
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Habib Koite - "Wassiye" Live:


featuring "Wassiye" from the Putumayo World Music Africa compilation.
 
I have always understood that the music of African ethnicity, or any other continent, should not be understood or used only to serve as a "tab" of a musical sequence. It is to be lived and experienced as a musical style with greater relevance. No reservations or prejudices.
Otherwise, it's like visiting the zoo at the weekend, to see rare birds.
Habib Koite is one of the examples (there are many more*) of the extraordinary quality of this musician and singer came from Mali, ability to improvise, high sense of the combination of rhythm, capable of competing with the best music that is produced in Europe, UK and the US.  
By the way, a word of congratulations to the RP Team, to include regular in their programming music of African ethnicity, and beyond, (not so much as I wanted, but ....) promoting the quality of music coming from around the world, and waking up with some minds addicted to urban music and electronics.

(*) Bob Marley, Cesaria Évora, Astor Piazzolla,  Inti-Illimani, Mercedes Soza,  Youssou N'Dour, Ismael Lo, Ali Farka Toure, Miriam Makeba, Maria de Barros, Mayra Andrade, Los Incas, Los Indios Tabajares,  Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Manuel Galban, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Ravi Shankar, Afro Cuban All Stars, Rubén González,  Ibrahim Ferrer, Eliades Ochoa,  Manu Dibango, Orchestra Baobab, Habib Koité & Bamada, Geoffrey Oryema, Hugh Masekela, Waldemar Bastos,  Federico Aubele, Amadou & Mariam, Angelique Kidjo, Nancy Vieira, Te Vaka,   Strunz & Farah, S.E. Rogie,  Bana, Kila & Oki,   Outback,  Lucho Bermudez, Tito Paris, Kila, Third World, Tom Diakité, Vieux Farka Touré, Oliver Mtukudzi,  Vusi Mahlasela, Baka Beyond,  Bonga, Papa Wemba, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Cheikh Lo Lo, Oliver N'Goma, Ayub Ogada, Kali,  etc, etc. 


** 8 / 9 **


vit
Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 14:48
 
 kaybee wrote:
  While I agree with you on the "Gangsta rap" bullshit we've been subjected to for the last decade or so, there is some good rap, De La Soul, Public Enemy, etc.  and I'm sure RP listeners who also listen to rap can name some more current groups.
 
No kidding. Awol-One is the latest I found. 


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 14:46
 
 kaybee wrote:
  While I agree with you on the "Gangsta rap" bullshit we've been subjected to for the last decade or so, there is some good rap, De La Soul, Public Enemy, etc.  and I'm sure RP listeners who also listen to rap can name some more current groups.


 

{#Yes}Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Common, Heltah Skeltah, Atmosphere, KRS-One (still kickin and relevant!), Pharcyde, The Roots, Blackalicious, Remedy, Rakim and many, many more!! Some call it consciousness Hip-hop, basically same as any genre, anything that is not commercial.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 17:24
 
 Stingray wrote:
Yes, we need more African music for sure, though this - Habig Koité - is not "Juju". "Habib" is from Mali, where more good bands originate from, thatn most of us can even imagine. "Habib" is a master of his (Griot-)art and a superstart in Mali, in Africa, in France (due to their many African inhabitans)and other European countries. But, surely, still way-way underrated, for no reason at all. He got three albums out so far (plus a LIVE-album) and all three are gorgeous in the real sense of the word. When realizing what bullshit his Afircan "brothers" at the US West- and Eastcoast are doing - stuff called RAP (indeed this and nothing more!!!!)- "Habib" can be proud to a real musician, not one of those "stinkers" selling T-shirts, wearing a pound of gold and let the drum-machine do the rest. Truely amazing that the masses are that stupid, naive and uneducated. No wonder RP does not need any RAP to play good music. I saw "Habib" playing live in Bamako - I knew years before that, though - and it was truely one of the hottest show I have ever seen. Thanx RP for knowing and making the difference...! That reminds me, I still haven´t paid "my dues", despite two promises.... bad from Germany,
Stingray!
   While I agree with you on the "Gangsta rap" bullshit we've been subjected to for the last decade or so, there is some good rap, De La Soul, Public Enemy, etc.  and I'm sure RP listeners who also listen to rap can name some more current groups.



EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee)
Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 08:28
 
Cheery ditty

AliGator
(The Bluegrass)
Posted: Oct 24, 2009 - 22:58
 
We saw Habib Koité & Bamada in the spring. It was wonderful. I took a lot of photos, but for some reason this was the only one I posted on Flickr. I'll have to go back and see if there are other ones worth posting.

Habib Koité
larger



Limpopoking
(The Parish of St. Alfonzo)
Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 06:10
 
Orsm... must go get me sum o' dis {#Bananajam}

sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jul 09, 2009 - 14:08
 
Oh yea, love me some Habib!! More African music, the better!!{#Dancingbanana_2}

cathenley
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Jun 07, 2009 - 19:09
 
I have this album, it's awesome....I think I got it from listening to RP a looooong time ago!! {#Guitarist}


jjbix
(san diego)
Posted: May 19, 2009 - 17:22
 
more of this, less byrne

holborne
(New York)
Posted: Apr 05, 2009 - 12:45
 
Never heard these guys before, but I really, really like this a lot. Thanks for playing it!

dali
(Tunisia)
Posted: Dec 12, 2008 - 17:02
 
wake up, mama Africa is dancing{#Dancingbanana}

Rob_S
(Lancaster, PA)
Posted: Aug 08, 2008 - 07:38
 
I heard them playing a couple of weeks ago, for free at a summer music concert series.  It was a most pleasant evening of musical discovery and camaraderie.  Nice to see them show up here on RP as well.

a_genuine_find
(New Amsterdam)
Posted: Apr 04, 2008 - 06:58
 



......WASSIYE
albupp
Posted: Nov 30, 2007 - 12:06
 
It's because of tunes like this that I am a proud supporter of RP!

Habib's music always makes me smile. A real cherub he is, and his concerts are unparalleled. Great for the family, not too loud and dancing to the side for the little ones.

If he's playing anywhere w/in a two hour drive, I would go in a heartbeat.
alux
(atop the pyramid)
Posted: Sep 28, 2007 - 16:54
 
Guitar work really stands out on this one. Gorgeous tune!
Delboy77
(Vienna, Austria)
Posted: Aug 28, 2007 - 06:34
 
overcaffeinatted wrote:
I really like this. Bill, more, please.


if you are anywhere near vienna, you should make it
on 14.10. to habib's gig, he playes right here (click here)


overcaffeinatted
(the Short Grass Prairie)
Posted: May 25, 2007 - 23:43
 
I really like this. Bill, more, please.
handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Apr 24, 2007 - 12:45
 
I just love this song (and the whole CD too). It makes me happy.