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Argile feat. Sona Diabaté - Live In Africa & Europe - BMV 8564-2 New songs and fresh performances by Sona Diabate and the international world music project from USA, Africa and Europe, Argile. Includes killer drum grooves, soaring West African vocals, outstanding Mande guitar work, and a bit of Afro-Pop. A tasty mix of colour -- each tune has its own flavour. “Live In Africa & Europe“ offers you the opportunity to hear more fresh sounds from Africa recorded live during the years 1997/98 in Ivory Coast, Togo, Italy and Germany. Enjoy the amazing voice of one of Africa's greatest singers, Sona Diabate, who presents work completed last year in Guinea. After worldwide success with her last solo album, “garé-garé“, Sona's latest recordings show her wide musical range and expressive voice accompanied by the fine guitar work of Guinean guitarist Lenke Conde. For the first time, she has blended traditional djembe and dununba music with modern arrangements, all without leaving her Mandingo roots. Sona Diabaté traditional griot-singer and modern singer-songwriter, was born in Tiro, Guinea in 1959. Hadj Djeli Fodé Diabaté, passed on their family's music legacy by teaching Sona to sing and to play the balafon. Her music training included singing with and learning from Miriam Makeba, who was living in Guinea at the time.> She became worldwide popular with Africa's well-known and first all-female band, the "Amazones de Guinée" (CD "Les Amazones de Guinée - Au coeur de Paris“ (1976) published in the US as "Girls from Guinea" - Shanachie). She did so far 3 Solo-CDs "Sons de la Savanne“ (1983), "Kankele-Ti“ (1988) and "Garé-Garé“ (1996) which climbed to third place on the European World Music charts. Her new album "Tounkana" will be released in summer 2002. She performed worldwide including Europe's biggest Africa festival at Wurzburg /Germany. Sona Diabaté's presence is a must on every compilation of West African music and is part of many popular samplers of African music, like Network-Guide to African Music (UK), African World Beat Vol.2 (Germany), Amina Mundi (USA/together with Argile), along side Youssou N'Dour, Angelique Kidjo, Salif Keita and Oumou Sangare. "At the moment there is no better Afro-Fusion-Band from Germany. Only the vocals of Sona Diabaté would make it worth to buy the album." (FOLKER - German Folk- and Worldmusicmagazine - 2001 No.2. - Luigi Lauer) Internet: www.bibiafrica.de