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Mali in Oak
Globe Music

Mali in Oak

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Details

Composer
GRIPPER JEGEDE DIABATE
Artist
Jegede, Gripper
Format
CD
Label
Globe Music
Released
Mar 24, 2017
Catalog #
GM-003
UPC
724120140285

About

Two of the world’s most unclassifiable string players join the new Globe Music label to commemorate their sold-out performances in John Williams’ widely acclaimed 2014 and 2015 concert series at Shakespeare’s Globe. Jegede, a master kora player, cellist and composer of Nigerian and Irish decent brings his dynamic and cosmopolitan musical intelligence to bear on the heart of the Malian griot repertoire. South African guitarist Derek Gripper, who has been earning slack-jawed praise from Capetown to Carnegie Hall adapting music for the 21-string kora to the 6-string classical guitar, here records with a kora for the very first time. A combination of duets and solos, both artists record some of their most personal compositions and arrangements in an expansive and loving journey of West African songcraft. Originally paired and programmed by Globe Director of Music Bill Barclay, Jegede and Gripper’s duet concert was the only performance in the John Williams series that the great guitar master, feeling he had nothing he could add, sat out to enjoy entirely as a listener. ‘ ...wholly enjoyable, quite outstanding, an entrancing sound, a kind of ecstatic tingling in the ear underlay almost everything that was played’ The Independent on Tunde Jegede. ‘Absolutely impossible until I heard Derek Gripper do it.’ John Williams

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Kaira Konkoba 03:49
    Track
    1
    Title
    Kaira Konkoba
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede, Derek Gripper
  2. 2 Where Rivers Meet 04:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    Where Rivers Meet
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Tunde Jegede, Derek Gripper
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede, Derek Gripper
  3. 3 Jarabi 05:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    Jarabi
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede, Derek Gripper
  4. 4 Miniyamba 05:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    Miniyamba
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Toumani Diabate, Sidiki Diabate, Tunde Jegede
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede, Derek Gripper
  5. 5 Alone 04:02
    Track
    5
    Title
    Alone
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Tunde Jegede
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede
  6. 6 Songs of the Eternal 04:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    Songs of the Eternal
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Tunde Jegede
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede
  7. 7 Si Naani 03:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    Si Naani
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Toumani Diabate
    Performer
    Derek Gripper
  8. 8 Tutu Jara 03:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    Tutu Jara
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Derek Gripper
  9. 9 Maimouna 02:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    Maimouna
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Ballaké Sissoko
    Performer
    Derek Gripper
  10. 10 Alfa Yaya 03:41
    Track
    10
    Title
    Alfa Yaya
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede, Derek Gripper
  11. 11 Cycle of Reckoning 13:39
    Track
    11
    Title
    Cycle of Reckoning
    Duration
    13:39
    Composer
    Tunde Jegede
    Performer
    Tunde Jegede