Pedro Kouyaté - Following (2024) [Hi-Res]

An album of Mandingo, jazz and blues sounds.
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 power of music and words to regenerate the world. A “jazz-tribal” odyssey!
You're immediately spellbound. The rhythms flow like clear river water, strike like beating hearts, sparkle like the shimmer of the moon. Kouyaté means “griot” in Malian. Singer and griot, Pédro Kouyaté blows confidences on love and life, and his distinctive voice interweaves ballads and trances, like a shaman's whisper. We feel the warmth of Africa, of his Malian homeland, and listen to a storyteller, to the sound of his calabash, his Kamalen N'goni, his guitar and the percussion that accompanies him.

Pédro Kouyaté: Lead vocals - Calabash - Guitar
Nelson Hamilcaro: Bass
Xavier Gélard: Drums
Florent Dupuit : Tenor saxophone - Flute
Olivier Bodin: MPC - Synthesizer

Tracklist:
1 Tissu
2 Sage-Femme
3 Following
4 Bon Sang - Part. 1
5 Mabo
6 Hiver
7 Marassa
8 Deni
9 Sahara Blues
10 Bon Sang - Part. 2