Issa Bagayogo

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Biography

Born in 1961 in Mali, Issa Bagayogo is a skilled player of the kamele n’goni, a traditional lute-like instrument. Bagayogo deftly melds Malian instruments and song structures (long, repeated musical phrases over which singers and players improvise and choruses chant—the best-known performer of this music is Ali Farka Touré) with dub, trance, and electronic elements. He does it so effectively that, as with his debut album Sya (1999), the result feels like a fully-integrated merger of the two traditions rather than the shotgun marriage that “world music” can sometimes seem like.

Top Tracks

1	Saye Mogo Bana	45
2	Sebero	29
3	Kalan Nege	28
4	Baro	20
5	Timbuktu	19
6	Nogo	18
6	Diarabi	18
8	Dambalou	16
9	Poye	13
9	Djigui	13
11	Ciew Mawele	12
12	Toroya	11
12	Dama	11
12	Bana	11
15	Dya Bana	10