Sourakata Koite — Moussa (Musique Senegalaise Traditionnelle)

LP/CD/Tape/Digital reissue coming out 18 Jan  2019 Senegalese kora master Sourakata Koité began music from pretty much day one. “All the Koité are musicians!,” he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of djéli (or griot in French), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After moving to Paris in the late 70s he began to play in different bands and for musicians like Manu Dibango, Touré Kounda, Mangala, Mah Damba and more. During a festiva