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Kulanjan

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Released
  
1999

Label
  
Hannibal Records

Producers
  
Joe Boyd, Lucy Durán

Release date
  
1999

Genres
  
Blues, World music

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Recorded
  
April 1999, Athens, Georgia

Kulanjan (1999)
  
The Best of Taj Mahal (2000)

Kulanjan (1999)
  
Jarabi The Best of Toumani Diabaté (2001)

Artists
  
Taj Mahal, Toumani Diabaté

Similar
  
Taj Mahal albums, World music albums

Taj mahal toumani diabate kulanjan


Kulanjan is a 1999 album by blues artist Taj Mahal and Malian kora-player Toumani Diabaté.

Contents

Mahal had first visited Mali in 1979, and the title of the album comes from the track "Kulanjan" from the 1970 album of kora music, Ancient Strings, by Toumani Diabaté's father Sidiki Diabaté. Mahal and Toumani Diabaté had first met in 1990, and in 1999, Toumani Diabeté selected six virtuoso Malian musicians and took them to record the album with Mahal in Athens, Georgia.

The album was described by New Statesman as "a rousing set of eclectic grooves, calling on ragtime, barrelhouse blues and even rock'n'roll".

Kulanjan was named album of the year by Folk Roots magazine, and President Barack Obama recommended the album in a survey for the Borders book chain.

Taj Mahal followed the album with a tour accompanied by West African musicians, linking his American blues sound to traditional West African rhythms and tracing the origins of blues to West Africa, Mahal also convinced that Mali's Mande griot (musician) clan were his ancestors.

Track listing

  1. "Queen Bee"
  2. "Tunkaranke"
  3. "Ol' Georgie Buck"
  4. "Kulanjan"
  5. "Fanta"
  6. "Guede Man Na"
  7. "Catfish Blues"
  8. "K'an Ben"
  9. "Take This Hammer"
  10. "Atlanta Kaira"
  11. "Mississippi-Mali Blues"
  12. "Sahara"

Songs

1Queen Bee5:06
2Tunkaranke6:31
3Ol’ Georgie Buck4:13

References

Kulanjan Wikipedia