We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Amadou Sekou

from Cascades by The Kora Band

/

about

Traditional Guinean, Arranged by the Kora Band

A song written for Sekou Touré, the first president of Guinée, which was the first country in West Africa to gain independence from France in 1958. Sekou Touré was a terrible dictator but a strong patron of his country's musicians and artists, organizing many state-sponsored bands and a record label which produced some of the finest West African recordings of the 60's-80's. The opening lines of this song say that Amadou Sekou's time (generation) was nice and prosperous and the following lines go on to recount proverbial musings on death: "Death laves no one behind, the world is nothing if it is not patience and perseverance. "

credits

from Cascades, released September 1, 2010
Andrew Oliver - piano
Kane Mathis - kora, vocals
Chad McCullough - flugelhorn
Brady Millard-Kish - acoustic bass,
Mark DiFlorio - drumset


Recorded by Don Gunn at Two Sticks Audio, Seattle, WA, May 9-10, 2010
Mixed by Don Gunn at the Office, Seattle, WA, June 9-10, 2010
Mastered by John McCaig at panicStudios, Seattle, WA, June 22, 2010

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Kora Band Seattle

contact / help

Contact The Kora Band

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like The Kora Band, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now