Bala, by Lassana Diabaté

Bala

by Lassana Diabaté

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stompinmarybethcarty This album is relaxing, intricate, meditative, and unique. Listen during a dinner party, when you awaken, or when you want to dance!

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1.	Cape Breton 05:40		buy track
2.	Tokonou 04:49		buy track
3.	Samuel 04:44		buy track
4.	The Farmer´s Tune 03:40	info	buy track
5.	Korogba / Sossofoli 03:09		buy track
6.	Nana Triban 03:08		buy track
7.	Kanou 04:25		buy track
8.	Hommage à Kassé Mady 04:53	info	buy track
9.	Sirfou 04:42		buy track
10.	Kaira 05:51		buy track
11.	The Jala Tree 05:21	info	buy track
12.	Aiassata hommage à mamam 04:59		buy track
13.	Mariama Siré 03:29		buy track

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This album is part of a community-engaged research-creation program led collaboratively by the internationally acclaimed musician and virtuoso balafón player Lassana Diabaté and ethnomusicologist Marcia Ostashewski, Director of The Centre for Sound Communities at Cape Breton University. Since 2014, they have been working together on multiple community-engaged research-creation projects facilitated by partnerships with public libraries, and African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaw community leaders and organizations in Cape Breton and Halifax. These collaborative projects have involved teaching, research, and creative practices that bridge gaps between university and wider community spaces; they have been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada; Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage - African Nova Scotian Affairs; Fulbright Canada; MITACS; and CLARI, community-engaged research support based at St. Mary’s University in Halifax. These collective efforts have led to numerous academic publications, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, the production of films, and digital learning resources routinely used in schools and universities.

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released March 13, 2021

All songs written by Lassana Diabaté
Producer: Marcia Ostashewski
Assistant Producer: Mary Beth Carty
Recording, Mixing and Mastering: Christopher Jones
Concept and Art Design: Darene Roma Yavorski - The Word & Image Studio
Special Thanks to professor Lucy Duran.

The project is supported by:
ANSA Foundation
Boys and Girls Club of Cape Breton
Cape Breton University
Centro for Sound Communities
Foli Lakana
Fullbright Canada
Government of Nova Scotia
Halton Waldorf School
Innovation Canada
Mitacs
Nova Scotia Research Trust
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
University of Manitoba

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Lassana Diabaté Mali

Fodé Lassana Diabaté, better known as Lassana Diabaté, is an internationally acclaimed musician, virtuoso balafón player, artist-researcher, composer, culture-bearer, and balafón maker, who comes from a well-known griot family of balafón masters in Guinea. He has collaborated with myriad international musicians and across many genres, and has participated in several Grammy-nominated albums. ... more

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