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Rail Band albums featuring Salif Keita
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| | Belle Epoque 3: Dioba CDs (2009)
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Formed at the outset of Mali's independence in the late `60s, the Rail Band initially built their repertoire as an upscale hotel band that catered to Western audiences. But despite the band's modern instrumentation (electric guitars, reeds and brass), lyrically ...
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 Rail Band Songs
Popular or famous Rail Band songs: Balakononifing, Demba, Dioula, Dugu Kamaleba, Finza, Gansana, Gnagna, Kaira, Kankoun, Konowale, Koro Koni, Lanseny. More music songs Mamadou Boutiqui, Mamobo, Mansa, Rail Band, Tie Diuguya, Tiramakan, Bedianomogo, Den Nadiya.
Rail Band Biography
Unquestionably the foremost purveyors of guitar based Malian pop, The Rail Band have had an enormous influence on the development of West African music since their inception in the early seventies. Though they benefited from government sponsorships, taking their name from the Malian National Railway Company that arranged their earliest performances, their improvisational aesthetic and inventive fusion of traditional Malian folk forms, Latin percussion, and western pop marked them as original and independent minded artists.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Damory Kouyate | | Djelimoussa Kouyate | | Salif Keita | Africando, Jonathan Elias, Martin Scorsese: Feel Like Going Home, Alanis Morissette, Les Ambassadeurs, Richard Bona, Joe Zawinul | | Mory KantT | Mory Kante, Talking Heads, Super Rail Band | | Djelimady Tounkara | Eric Bibb, Kandia Kouyate | | Moussa Kone | Issa Bagayogo | | Marius | Squash Bowels | | Moussa Traaore | Tidane et le Dieuf Dieul | | Abdouramane Koumare | | Alfred Coulibaly | | Charrie | | Cheik Traore | | Djelimadi Sissoko | | Issa Tounkara | | Kabine Keita | | Korobala | | Lanfia Diabate | | Ledi Youla | | Magan Ganessy | | Mamoutou Diakite | | Nabe Baba | | Ousmane Sogodogo | | Sourakata Cisse | | Tidiani Kone | | Sekou Kouyate | Ba Cissoko, African Virtuoses, Blick Bassy, Djeneba Seck | | Pacheco | Batata y Su Rumba Palenquera | | Sekou KantT | Les Escrocs, Ali Farka Toure |
Contemporaries
Youssou N'Dour, Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keita, Rokia Traoré, Bembeya Jazz National, Les Ambassadeurs du Motel
Followers
Tinariwen
Influences
James Brown, Ray Charles, Fela Kuti, The Meters, Kandia Kouyate, Mory Kanté, Oumou Sangare, Kante Manfila
More Music Artists
Funky Blues Messiahs, Daniel D'Leon, Sine Calmon
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