Les Ballets Africains <font color="bf0606"><i>DOWNLOAD ONLY</i></font> LYR-7419

Digital Download available from your favorite site including    Download free liner notes below (Mac users use Ctrl + click) Papa Ladji Camara, a Malinke tribesman, has formed a diverse ensemble of musicians and singers from Mali, Gambia, Senegal and the U.S. Includes two duets with Salieu Suso, Mandinka Griot and balafon accompaniment. The stories in these songs are ones Ladji heard as a youth in the 20s, important tools of West African tribal culture. Descriptive song notes. 6 performances. It was with sadness that we learned that Ladji Camara passed away in October of 2004 in Senegal. Ladji was an internationally acknowledged master of the Djembe, and did a great deal toward establishing West African cultural music and tradition as a powerful cultural force in the West. For this, his second Lyrichord recording, Ladji formed a unique ensemble of musicians and singers from his own country (Guinea), from Mali, Gambia, Senegal and the United States. A kora duet with the great Mandink