Djeli Moussa Diawara & Bob Brozman, Ocean Blues - 56m 20s

Tracks & Durations

1. Kanun	4:50
2. Maloyan Devil	5:59
3. Almany	5:42
4. Dakon	3:12
5. Uncle Joe	4:56
6. Hip Hop	4:38
7. Nkaminyo Yelena Ma	6:49
8. Voyage Dans Le Desert	4:21
9. Malaga	4:00
10. Sabari	5:46
11. Malaika	5:59

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Review

After an extended comedy of near misses in Paris, Bob Brozman finally met Djeli Moussa Diawara in the middle of the Indian Ocean, on the isle of Réunion. The versatile American ethnomusicologist-guitarist and Guinean kora master sat in together and immediately decided that a duet album was in order. On Ocean Blues they revel in the textural possibilities of their instruments, as the cascading glissandos and muscular attack of Diawara's modified steel-pegged kora (West African harp) encounters Brozman's exuberantly virtuosic slide and blues guitar. Worlds collide and collude as this two-way fan club creates their brave new music. The pair moves from intuitive cross-cultural politeness to playful theremin-like swoops and whines to ferocious toe-to-toe face-offs. Their singing is another study in contrasts and egoless cooperation--Diawara's filigreed jali wail and Brozman's bluesy growl unexpectedly turn out to be made for each other. --Christina Roden

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