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Two Rivers : Bafilabèn
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A blend of traditional West-African kora melodies and American acoustic guitar--a new music, crossing borders, the merging of two rivers.
Genre: Folk: Modern Folk
Release Date: 2008
Bafilabèn Record Label: Two Rivers
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Jarabi 4:07 Album Only
Lament 4:40 Album Only
Traveling Song 2:09 Album Only
Hommage à Cheick Keita 4:11 Album Only
Bani 4:17 Album Only
Flashes Behind 3:54 Album Only
Kaira 4:34 Album Only
Juma 4:50 Album Only
Moonlight 5:31 Album Only
Curtain Call 2:34 Album Only
Bafilabèn 3:09 Album Only
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Album Notes

In the Malian Sahel, the Bafing and Bakoye Rivers meet and flow past sand, scrub brush, millet fields, and rangeland. The Sahel is a borderland between the Sahara and Central Africa, between a world of nomads and the settled world of towns and cities. This collection of songs also exists in a borderland, providing a route between different geographies, languages, and musical traditions.

The result, is a new music, for the guitar’s six strings and the kora’s twenty-one.

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REVIEWS

author: Kristin W. Hutchinson
Such a great album! I have been listening to Bafilaben multiple times a day, 3-4 days a week for months now, as it is one of handful of cds my girls use for bedtime. It is beautiful and interesting for me (even day after day!), yet soft enough to be lullaby music for them. Thank you Dov, Ryan, and Sara for the beautiful music that I will ALWAYS remember as part of my girls babyhood.
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Bafilaben
author: Greg Reynolds
I absolutely love it. Dov, Sara & Ryan are 'da bomb.
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