Musiques d'Afrique:
Lobi Traoré
(Mali)
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Lobi Traoré is a Bambara singer from a village near Segou, the heart of
the Bambara region. When he was 16 years old, he went to the town of Segou where he joined a folkoric music group.
Around 1980, when we was in Bamako, he got in contact with Zani Diabaté's Super
Djata Band, where he became a singer for the bambara repertoire. A few years later, he started to sing solo in bars and at weddings, and the people of Bamako started to know him for his bambara music with that bluesy touch. Over the years, he added percussion (djembe, gourd and bongolo) to his music. A second album Halfway the 1990s, Lobi has been touring across West Africa and Europe. An encounter with French harmonica player Vincent Bucher, who has been playing with several French and American blues artists, proves to be a fruitful and results in a lasting musical friendship. The album Singing about Bambara kings, Lobi's songs are melancholic, and without him knowing, his music sounds very much like blues. After some years of relative silence, a new album with a compilation of his best songs has been released in France in September 2004. Musicians on "Duga": Lobi Traore Voice, Guitar Vincent Bucher Harmonica Bakary Traoré Djembé Chaka Cenvint Doumbia Bongolo Bréma Kouyaté Bass Guitar Mama Diabaté N'goni Alou Traoré Gourd Moussa Koné Acoustic Guitar Ramata Diakité Backing Vocals Tata Diakité Backing Vocals Yves Wernert Bass Guitar Malik & Band Percussions (Track 7) Source: www.lobitraore.com/ Mali Music. Born: 1961 in Bakaridianna (near Segou) Style: Bambara music/ Mali blues. |
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| Title | Year | Label | Remarks |
| I Yougoba | 2007 | Diesel Motor MOTORCD1030 | Album by Lobi Traoré & Joep Pelt |
| The Lobi Traoré Group | 2005 | Honest Jons HJRCD13 | Semi-live one take recording in Bamako |
| Mali Blue | 2004 | Dixiefrog DFGCD 8574 | (Best of compilation) |
| Duga | 1999 | Cobalt 09289-2 | |
| Ségou | 1996 | Cobalt 09275-2 | |
| Bamako | 1994 | Buda 82893-2 | |
| Bambara Blues | 1991 | Buda 82816-2 |
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