Jah Youssouf & Bintou Coulibaly
Jah Youssouf & Bintou Coulibaly
Aissaoua Sufi Ceremony, Marrakesh, Morocco
About Jah Youssouf & Bintou Coulibaly
Southern Malian Jah Youssouf met his wife Bintou Coulibaly in 2001 while in her native country, Cote d'Ivoire; the two began making music the next year and were shortly married. Since then, Youssouf has been able to tour in Africa, and even Canada, whose traditional music he admires, while Bintou takes care of their three children in their home in Moribabougou, near Mali's sprawling capital Bamako. Thanks to his touring, Youssouf's previous album Son Son Son made it's way online to be discovered by Brad Loving (aka, Lobisomem), who managed to orchestrate a series of coincidences that ended with him in Mali and invited to record Youssouf and his wife at their home. Sababou is the resultant album and enshrines, according to Youssouf, the "fruit of a conjunction of two musical cultures"-- the traditional music that his uncle taught him growing up and the American or western popular music that he heard later. Youssouf plays a traditional calabash guitar and his wife drums, while both sing in call-and-response. Rhythmically, much of the album echoes the sound of takamba and Malian ceremonial music, though in many ways it will sound like a stripped down version of the more soulful Afrobeat that westerners are just beginning to become more familiar with.
Taken from Last.fm
258 listeners · 3,914 plays via Last.fm
On RadioStar
Jah Youssouf & Bintou Coulibaly — Top 1 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jah Youssouf & Bintou Coulibaly | Atoi |