LA VOIX DE LA REVOLUTION

STERNS MUSIC

Jan 2013 - 8

Nov 2012 - 5

Aug 2012 - 3

Jul 2012 - 2

Mar 2012 - 1

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Sory Kandia Kouyaté moved from the royal court of a local ruler to the urbane company of revolutionary artists and future politicians until in 1958, the year of Guinea's independence, his powerful, sonorous voice was at its peak.

Here is where our story begins..

This authoritative 2CD album with 40-page booklet including rare, intimate photos never before seen outside his immediate circle charts both sides of his music, the contemporary and the traditional, to explain why today, almost four decades after his death, he is still the ultimate point of reference for all West African griots.

"this is shivers-down-the-spine stuff" Howard Male The Independent