Toumani Diabaté

Toumani Diabaté is a solo artist associated with ML whose catalog here spans 1988–1988. The artist is connected with African Popular Music and West African Traditional Music, so genre, period and individual recordings offer useful ways into the work.

Listen for how African Popular Music and West African Traditional Music shape rhythm, voice and arrangement. A starting path includes “A Mi Tia Marina”, “A Toumani”, “Africa”, “Alla L'Aa Ke”. Then move to “Songhai” and “Kaira” to hear how recordings are organized in a release context.