The First Female Kora Virtuoso

Sona Jobarteh & Band - Kora Music from West Africa

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Click times for titles: 1) 0:12 2) 10:06 3) 16:52 4) 24:40 5) 34:02 6) 44:24 7) 49:30

Sona Jobarteh performed in Weimar on invitation of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and its UNESCO Chair of Transcultural Music Studies (TMS). The TMS Chair regularly invites artists to bring the musicology students into contact with various musical cultures for inspiration and exchange.

Sona Jobarteh is the first female Kora virtuoso to come from a west African Griot family. The Kora is one of the most important instruments belonging to the Manding peoples of West Africa (Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau). It belongs exclusively to griot families, and usually only men who are born into these families have the right to take up the instrument professionally. Sona Jobarteh combines various genres of African Music and western musical elements.

Sonah Jobarteh – Acoustic Guitar/ Kora/ Vocals
Kari Bannermann – Acoustic Guitar
Andi McLean – Electric Bass/ BVs
Mouhamadou Sarr – Djembe/ Congas/ Calabash/ BVs

Recorded on 1 July 2015 at the "mon ami", Weimar.

For further information visit:
www.hfm-weimar.de/tms


hicthcock100
hicthcock100
2 years ago
1) 0:12 - Jarabi
2) 10:06 - Mamamuso
3) 16:52 - Kaira
4) 24:40 - Gainaako
5) 34:02 - Kanu
6) 44:24 - Saya
7) 49:30 - Bannaya
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Cozmin Vasile
Cozmin Vasile
10 months ago
Here in Romania we have a deep rooted folklore, traditions, music and rituals but nothing feels as close and familiar as some of the traditional African songs and voices sound. Is not even a specific part of Africa, either is Western or Southern...it's something in the tone of the voice, in the instrument used, in the scales or language, like all the human history is projected o in the back of your head and all the grief and the struggle and the nature and wilderness until the present times are revealed to you as a reminder of what you've become in hundreds and thousands of years. The songs might mean nothing relevant, or the lyrics, not even care, is the package that sends you back in time and pulls you back to your office chair like you would've time traveled even for 5 minutes.
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Olusegun Onanuga
Olusegun Onanuga
3 months ago
You feel that way because you are human... The common language of nature that we live in is still understood by you. You are human and you are still in tune with the essence of nature. This essence transcends race, distance or time, this essence binds the fabric of our existence and consciousness together. I have a feeling that you likely will be an environment-conscious being, one of those who believe in clean unpolluted, air, land and water... You're human, a good human.
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Si Fi
Si Fi
1 month ago
@Olusegun Onanuga Agreed. It's primal at every level. The sound of nature and the sounds within human beings, like heart beat.


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Rodia Shema
Rodia Shema
2 weeks ago
there is a song called Al dia that is a Romanian song that has similar tones

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Andy Peutherer
Andy Peutherer
1 week ago
cozmin that was one of the best thinngs i have ever read mate



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