Sona Diabaté - Girls Of Guinea FLAC

Sona Diabaté Griot African 1990

Tracklist

A1	M'boré	6:06
A2	Koloman	6:17
A3	M'boté	7:03
B1	Kankele-ti	6:01
B2	Horro	5:56
B3	Nassannaba	8:14

Credits

Adapted By – Sona Diabaté
Arranged By – Demba Camara
Composed By – Sona Diabaté
Guitar – Sekou "Bembeya" Diabaté*
Lead Vocals – Sona Diabaté
Recorded By, Mixed By – Günter Gretz
Twelve-String Guitar – Demba Camara
Vocals – Fatoumata "N'Gadi" Bangoura, Sayon Diabaté

Notes

All compositions by Sona Diabaté, except Horro, trad., adapted by Sona Diabaté. All arrangements by Demba Camara.

Produced by African Music, Frankfurt, with a lot of help from Productions Bolibana, Paris.

Mixed and recorded directly on 2-track videotape by Günter Gretz in Paris on 12 September 1988.

This record is dedicated to El Hadj Djeli Fodé Diabaté (the father of Sona, Sayon & Sekou who died 2 October 1988).

M'boré - the youth of the old days was different from the youth of today: I talk about you, Marie Touré, in your beautiful boubou embroidered with gold...
Koloman - we, the griots, are not the only ones doing their duties. Women always pounded the millet; men always cultivated the fields; the blacksmith always shaped the iron; the griots always praise the industrious...
M'boté - happiness is back in our beautiful village: young and old, women and children, let's celebrate! Let's not listen to our enemy, he wont be satisfied anyway...
Kankele-ti - I will be always following the man who is treating me well, wherever he goes. I just can't sit down here in Guinea without him. This man gives me pleasures I can't tell about. Girls of Guinea, search in all directions for your love...
Horro - the honesty of a man is reflected in his deeds and in his words, since medieval times griots sing about honest men...
Nassannaba - Since I met Princess Nassannaba Touré I don't bother anyore to run back and forth. If this lady, who has done so much for me, calls for me, I come for help, whether her call comes from Conakry, Bamako, Abidjan, Dakar or even from Paris. What an honour to be called by Mamy Wata, the queen of the oceans...

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
pam 06	Sona Diabaté	Kankele-Ti ‎(LP)	Popular African Music	pam 06	1988
65007	Sona Diabaté	Girls Of Guinea ‎(CD, Album)	Shanachie	65007	US	1990
PAM 401	Sona Diabaté	Kankele-Ti ‎(CD, Album)	Popular African Music	PAM 401	Guinea	1992