Transitional Times (2016)

"Gambian multi-instrumentalist Dawda Jobarteh and his top-notch band of Danish, Cameroonian, Ghanaian, Cuban, and Gambian musicians embrace an accessible fluidity of styles, and thus emotions, on "Transitional Times". The album centers on Jobarteh's masterful playing on the kora, the Mandinka West African harp that has became a staple piece of transnational 'world music' projects. His group's particular matrix of plucked strings, electric rock instrumentation, spiritual jazz, and a loosely unifying theme allows them to toy with labels and stereotypes while opening into less-trodden ground. Despite belonging to a lineage of lauded jaliya or griots who helped spread recognition of the kora beyond West Africa, Jobarteh only began to focus on the kora after relocating to Denmark, having initially studied the calabash in the Gambia." (Rootsworld)

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