Keletigui et ses Tambourinis - Famadenke

Released by Sterns Music http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info.php?id=STCD3031-32 Keletigui et ses Tambourinis were the most respected band in Guinea. They were the only ones amongst the dancing orchestras to have the honour to accompany the unreachable Sory Kandia Kouyate, the voice of the Revolution. The winds instrument section counted up to seven elements, it created a sonar wall with no rivals, while Linke Conde was considered the best guitar player of time, equal to Sekou "Bembeya" Diabate from Bembeya Jazz and to Sekou "le docteur" Diabate from Balladins. When a star from another country would go to Guinea to play, the Tambourinis had the task to accompany the star during the performance, like with the single M'Bongi Eyi by the Congolese Franklin Boukaka, included in the compilation. Not only Dabadou and Kerfala Camara were singing but also the main soloists of the orchestra, mainly the tenor sax of Keletigui, with his short and nervous ways, Linke Conde's guitar maybe less bizarre than Bembeya and less electric than the Docteur but dry and essential in his fashion, equally efficient. The sound of Tambourinis mixed traditional melodies with the guajira from Cuba and the swing and was characterized for the compactness of its rhythmic section and for the continuous overwhelming drive of the wind instruments.