KONGO SIGUI THE SUPER RAIL BAND OF BAMAKO Indigo Cat: LBLC2581 the couple Salif Keita and Mory Kante took their first musical stairs with Bamako's Buffet de la Gare Super Rail Band.

KONGO SIGUI

THE SUPER RAIL BAND OF BAMAKO

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the couple Salif Keita and Mory Kante took their first musical stairs with Bamako's Buffet de la Gare Super Rail Band. And one time again, on their new recording Kongo Sigui, the legendary Rail Band is a source for everfresh renditions--whether of original canticles or songs inspired by centuries-old tradition. For example, the title poem is the name of the buffalo that lives in the bush. This animal figures in the story of Sunjata, the first king of the Malian empire.

Sunjata's grandmother was a supernatural being who