recorded live in the studio in Japan

The kora is a 21-string bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora_(instrument)

Foday Musa Suso (born in Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the Gambia. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group, and is a griot. Griots are the oral historians and musicians of the Mandingo people who live in several west African nations. Griots are a living library for the community providing history, entertainment, and wisdom while playing and singing their songs. It is an extensive verbal and musical heritage that can only be passed down within a griot family.

Suso emigrated to Chicago in 1977, being one of the first jalis to relocate to North America. Once in Chicago, he formed the Mandingo Griot Society, which played fusion music around the world. He has performed with Bill Laswell, Philip Glass, Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Ginger Baker, Paul Simon and the Kronos Quartet. He has contributed to music for the Olympic Games in 1984 and 2004.

His electrified kora can also be heard on several tracks on Herbie Hancock's 1984 electro-funk album Sound-System. The following year, Suso and Hancock came out with another album, Village Life, that consists entirely of duets between them, Hancock on synthesizer and Suso on kora, talking drums, and vocals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Musa_Suso

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/foday-musa-suso-mn0000199849/discography

"Moon/Light" (Hancock, Suso) - 7:57 主要都是kora的演奏
"Ndan Ndan Nyaria" (Suso) - 9:50 延續前面加入人聲非洲鼓最後結尾有意思

"Early Warning" (Hancock) - 2:52 唯一當代感覺
"Kanatente" (Hancock, Suso) - 19:59 最後小高潮

Personnel[edit]

Herbie Hancock: detunable Yamaha DX-1 synthesizer, drum machine
Foday Musa Suso: kora, talking drum, vocals

was generally ignored when it came out, probably because it fit no one's preconceived idioms -- be they jazz, funk, MTV, or even world music.

On the 20-minute "Kanatente," Hancock does introduce some of his own advanced harmonic ideas, and he contrasts and interweaves them with Suso's deceptively simple lines in a splendid jam session that eventually ends in a dance that can only be described as Gambian funk.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/village-life-mw0000649553

In West African culture, a griot is a musician and storyteller who holds all of the keys to the history of his people. It is the griot’s place in society to share that history through music, entertainment and poetry. The kora is a 21-string instrument that is the chief instrument accompanying a griot.

Now anyone who’s ever heard the music of the kora, no doubt, has fallen under its spell. It is a string instrument that has the player handling rhythm, harmony and melody at the same time, similar to the sitar, but the sound of the kora is more mystical in its feel and majestic in its sound.

Village Life is a high water mark for all involved. The album was recorded in Japan over three days in 1984 with Bill Laswell accompanying Hancock on production duties.

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