El Trio Da Kali está formado por tres jóvenes músicos, pero con gran experiencia, y provenientes de estirpes de grandes maestros. Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté es la voz principal e hija del cantante Kassé Mady Diabaté, una de las grandes voces africanas que murió tristemente en 2018. Madou Kouyaté toca el ngoni bajo y es hijo de Bassekou Kouyaté virtuoso del ngoni (mezcla de arpa y laúd). Y Lassana Diabaté, maestro del balafón (xilófono de madera con resonadores de calabaza) y director musical del trío, ha tocado en la Symmetric Orchestra de Toumani Diabaté y ha participado en múltiples e importantes grabaciones, como el proyecto de fusión afrocubana AfroCubism.
BAGOLA Debut full-length solo album by the award-winning Malian trio, TRIO DA KALI In their new album Bagola, Trio Da Kali present newly-composed songs accompanied on balafon and ngoni bass, that provide a rich accompaniment to the spectacular voice of Hawa Kasse Mady Diabaté. She inherits her singing style from her father, the late Kasse Mady Diabaté, who was widely recognised as one of Africa’s all-time greatest singers, and won a Grammy nomination in 2004. Hawa’s voice has an exquisite purity and expressiveness, with a wide emotional range. She is equally at home in the lively, 9/8 rhythms of the title track Bagola, a light-hearted critique of men in Malian society, to the soulful Orpaillage, a song that laments the destruction of land from gold-panning. Orpaillage was in fact composed on the spot in the studio, reflecting the creative chemistry between these three musicians. The musical director of the trio is balafon (xylophone) player Lassana Diabaté, born in Guinea into a well-known family of balafon musicians. His remarkable dexterity on the balafon earned him a place in Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra, and later on in the group Afrocubism (featuring Eliades Ochoa). He has collaborated with many musicians, including bluesman Taj Mahal on the album Kulanjan. With two balafons of 22 rosewood keys each, tuned to play chromatic scales, Lassana Diabaté achieves a perfect balance of rhythm, melody, harmony and virtuosic embellishment. David Harrington, leader of Kronos Quartet, compares him to none other than JS Bach. Underpinning the balafon with compulsive groove, is the ngoni bass, played with brilliant musicality by Madou Kouyaté (son of Bassekou Kouyaté and member of his group Ngoniba). Madou, the youngest member of Trio Da Kali, also adds rich harmonies with his deep breathy voice to the songs. Trio Da Kali was founded in 2013 under the initiative of the Aga Khan Music Programme, with the help of three-times Grammy-nominated music producer Lucy Durán. The Trio first rose to international fame with their sublime album Ladilikan (World Circuit Records 2017), featuring an unprecedented and multi-award-winning collaboration with Kronos Quartet, the legendary classical string quartet from San Francisco. Bagola is a showcase of Trio Da Kali’s entrancing and unique sound, only equalled by their magical performances on stage.
1. BAGOLA 03:34
2. DADUNKAN 04:06
3. CELA SIGUI 03:50
4. TULUNKE 03:18
5. ORPAILLAGE 04:49
6. DISSA 03:10
7. WARA 04:12
8. NANA TRIBAN 03:57
9. FAKOLY 04:33
10. LATEGE 04:06
11. DEME 05:05 video

























