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Les Escrocs - Mandinka Rap From Mali
Naxos World Music

Les Escrocs - Mandinka Rap From Mali

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Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Les Escrocs
Format
CD
Label
Naxos World Music
Released
Sep 20, 2005
Catalog #
76060-2
UPC
636943706022

About

Mali's Les Escrocs are pioneers in the fast-growing world of African Rap and Hip-Hop. Since the early 1990s, the group has helped define the cutting edge of new music in West Africa, mixing traditional instruments with contemporary international beats, and boldly addressing sensitive issues of social and national politics: polygamy, AIDS, corruption, and the changing role of women in society. Les Escrocs made their first recording with help from another Griot, the master of the 21-string kora, Toumani Diabate. Toumani and other older musicians encouraged the group to stick with it's engaged, roots approach, and before long, Les Escrocs found themselves on national television, giving all of Mali a powerful rebuttal to the common idea that rappers were all dropouts and delinquents. From there on, the group's popularity has climbed steadily. Les Escrocs started out as a trio of rappers, but after Mamadou's two cohorts left to study abroad, he was joined in 1999 by Salim Diallo. The two went on to make four albums, Kokadje (Transparency), Kalan (Study), Can 2002, and a new work nearing completion as this CD goes to press. These fourteen tracks offer a retrospective of the first decade of Les Escrocs, one of the most innovative and talented groups to emerge from the awesome crucible of ancient and modern arts that is Mali.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Pirates 04:51
    Track
    1
    Title
    Pirates
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  2. 2 Saara (Polygamy) 04:17
    Track
    2
    Title
    Saara (Polygamy)
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  3. 3 Enseignants (Teachers) 05:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    Enseignants (Teachers)
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  4. 4 Tounga (Expatriates) 04:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    Tounga (Expatriates)
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  5. 5 Sida 2001 (AIDS 2001) 05:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    Sida 2001 (AIDS 2001)
    Duration
    05:47
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  6. 6 Sida 2000 (AIDS 2000) 05:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    Sida 2000 (AIDS 2000)
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  7. 7 Demisenw (Children) 05:37
    Track
    7
    Title
    Demisenw (Children)
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  8. 8 Kokadje (Transparency) 05:14
    Track
    8
    Title
    Kokadje (Transparency)
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  9. 9 Farafina Mussow (African Women) 05:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    Farafina Mussow (African Women)
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  10. 10 Integration africaine (African Unity) 05:35
    Track
    10
    Title
    Integration africaine (African Unity)
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  11. 11 CAN 2002 (African Cup of Nations) 05:26
    Track
    11
    Title
    CAN 2002 (African Cup of Nations)
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  12. 12 Expulses (The Expelled) 05:10
    Track
    12
    Title
    Expulses (The Expelled)
    Duration
    05:10
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  13. 13 Kalan (Study) 05:37
    Track
    13
    Title
    Kalan (Study)
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara
  14. 14 Konotie Magni (Clandestine Abortion) 05:22
    Track
    14
    Title
    Konotie Magni (Clandestine Abortion)
    Duration
    05:22
    Composer
    Mamadou Tounkara