Posted on May 27, 2008, 6:45 am

Thoughts please

Posted on May 27, 2008, 8:40 am

sounds just the tune to soothe the savage half term beasty ! Am off to catch the Indiana Jones and the temple of crusading arks...or whatever its called....pass me that whip !

Posted on May 27, 2008, 10:29 am

My fascination with the music of Mali and it's contemporary diaspora is that the melodies are "Top down", they start high and fall like rain. This is not a feature of Arabic traditions and not in Western music, including pop rock and blues and makes it very distinctive. I love the way this settles into a "Lover's rock rhythm" and the Kora begins to sound like steel pans? This may be my imagination. Lovely track anyway!

Posted on May 27, 2008, 6:11 pm

It is distinctive but I could never have told you why! This is soothing, comforting and beautiful all at the same time...