River of Strings — Mali Kora Jazz Album | Mandé Folk Jazz with Kora, Ngoni & Sax

At seven her grandfather teaches her four notes on the kora. At twenty she plays them at weddings. Years later, on a festival stage by the river, a boy plays them back to her — and bends one note she never taught. Ten songs from Bamako and the river: a griot who knows every family's debts, a night guard and a bread seller trading the same three sentences for six years, a phone repairman courting over three rounds of tea, a sand diver under the bridge, a wedding run from a list — and a stubborn ancestor who walked three days to return an iron pot. Mandé folk meets jazz: kora, ngoni, balafon and calabash with upright bass, brushes and soprano sax. TRACKLIST 0:00 Kora by the River 3:39 The Jeli Knows Your Name 6:59 Bamako Shift Change 10:17 Twenty-One Strings 14:41 The Courtyard Remembers 18:23 Tea Three Times 21:41 Bridge Over the Djoliba 25:05 Wedding at Sundown 28:51 The Long Story 32:09 River Keeps the Song Songs written by a human with the help of language models; music made with neural-network tools. Production — Neuro Gramophone: human ideas, neural-network tools. Subscribe for the next stop of Africa Folk Jazz. #kora #mali #africanjazz #folkjazz #neurogramophone