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Folon
~ Salif Keita (Artist)
4.0 out of 5 stars 1 customer review (1 customer review)
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The Mali superstar has kept a low profile since Amen (1991), his Joe Zawinul-produced bid for crossover stardom, and a new generation of Afro pop marvels led by Baaba Maal have stepped into the vacuum. Returning to Paris and working with producer/keyboardist Wally Badarou (ex-Level 42), Keita is in exquisite voice although he too often takes a back seat to the extended, horn-driven funk jams typified by Sumun and Mandjou. --Jeff Bateman

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One of Mali's many excellent cultural exports (alongside Ali Farka Toure and Oumou Sangare), Salif Keita is a significant figure on the world-music stage. FOLON finds Keita's voice--a rich tenor that is sensual, nimble, and fierce all at once--in excellent form. (His soulful, looping embellishmentssometimes recall Islamic prayer calls.) Keita's music is a synthesis of styles drawing heavily on African elements, Latin music, Europop, and American idioms such as jazz, soul, and funk; and FOLON brings this blend on strong.
"Tekere" starts the disc off with an undulating bass line that intertwines with a percolating guitar, vibrant rhythms, and punchyhorns. One of Keita's trademark vocal techniques is the call-and-response he conducts with his female backing singers, and this vocal interchange is key to the chant-like "Mandela" and the bright, danceable "Sumun". However, the mellow groove of "Mandjou" (one of the disc's highlights) showcases Keita's solo voice. In musical breadth and its smart, propulsive mixture of global styles, FOLON is an excellent example of this Malian star's work.

 
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4.0 out of 5 stars A work that displays Keita's "roots, trunk and branches", 20 Nov 2000
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Salif Keita has described his music as resembling a tree: the roots are the african tradition, the trunk is jazz and the branches are funk music. This album displays these aspects with all the confidence and diversity of a mature master. The opening track, Tekere, is an uplifting Afro-beat jive that gets you dancing in your head at the very least. The second track, Mandjour, is a re-working of an early Keita song that was a big african hit. The new version is atmospheric and funky with extended solos riding over the grooves. After a tour through a wide range of musical idioms, the album ends with two haunting, acoustic balads that demonstrate Salif Keita's authentic griot background to superb effect.
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