Makan Badjé Tounkara's lyrics & chords

As well as playing with an array of Mali’s contemporary music-makers, Makan Badjé Tounkara has carved out a space to share his own stories, which he narrates under his name in a second album, Sodjan. His academic yet modern playing of the ngoni, the string instrument played at the royal court for centuries, leads him irresistibly into the land of the blues. The key to the musical world inhabited by “Badjé”, dominated by the charming sound of his favourite instrument, lies in the fact that the 46-year-old Malian received an “old school...read more