{"product_id":"pedro-kouyate_following_2024_disco-virgin-music-group","title":"Following","description":"An album with Mandingue, jazz, and blues sounds. From Erik Truffaz to Arthur H, Pédro Kouyaté celebrates universal music! Magnificently surrounded by Arthur H, Manu Katché, Big Daddy Wilson, Oxmo Puccino, and Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz, Pédro Kouyaté pays tribute in ten songs to nature, the great outdoors, the dead and the living, and majestically bears witness to the sources of African music. \"Like the Egyptians who played in the temples, it's an ancestral spirituality that I want to rediscover here,\" he says, recalling the music of Manu Dibango, which he listened to in his childhood, as well as that of Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Thelonious Monk... Pédro Kouyaté's husky, magnetic voice envelops this new album, conceived as a tribute to the ancestors of the Malian people, to oral tradition, and to the vital force of music and speech to regenerate the world. A \"jazz-tribal\" odyssey! You are immediately captivated. The rhythms flow like the clear water of rivers, beat like pounding hearts, sparkle like the shimmering of the moon. Kouyaté means \"griot\" in Malian. Singer and griot, Pédro Kouyaté breathes confidences about love and life, and his very particular voice intertwines ballads and trances, like a shaman's whisper. You feel the warmth of Africa, of its Malian land, and you listen to a storyteller, to the sound of his calabash, his Kamalen N'goni, his guitar, and the percussion that accompanies him. The name of this new album, whose composition began during the time of Covid, speaks of those who are no more but whose spirit lives on: \"I decided to speak to the ancestors. Following is the continuation of what the world is no longer and what the world will be. I said to myself: maybe we have forgotten the ancestors, and nature and the gods are perhaps angry, the sorcerers will question the ancestors.\" Magnificent storyteller and passer of tales with a propitiatory and medicinal voice, Pédro Kouyaté has the gift of healing our ills, of taking care of our souls. His music heals and calls upon the heritage of peoples. And at each of his concerts, the public flocks, enchanted.","brand":"Pédro Kouyaté","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57520737288536,"sku":null,"price":20241122.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/pedro-kouyate_following_2024_disco-virgin-music-group","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}