Aly Keïta - Hommage

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Aly Keïta was born 1969 in Abidjan / Ivory Coast. He plays an instrument called Balafone simular to a Xylofone and mixes the folk and jazz music.
First I met his kind of music in Munich in a simple Jazz pub called Unterfahrt.
Aly Keïta makes his own balafons and plays them continually in order to excelalongside the very best. Now living in Germany, he has participated in a number of projects together with Omar Sosa, Rhoda Scott, H.Lüdemann, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Paco Séry, Karim Ziad, Trilok Gurtu & Jan Garbaret, Chander Sardjoe, L.Soubramania, Arto Touboyacyan, Etienne M'bappé, Linley Marthe, Mathew Garrison, Paulo Frésu, Joe Zawinul....With his impressive virtuosity, Aly develops spectacular and enchanting African polyphonies on his instrument with one thousand and one waves of his (two) magic hands !

Listen to this remarkable kind of jazz music.