Obituaries (R.I.P.) Thread

Ah man this sucks. Diabaté was amazing, he’s based on my understanding the equivalent of Jimi Hendrix in the kora world. Everyone who likes beautiful and emotional instrumental music should check him out.

My favourites are the two albums he did with Ali Farka Touré (“In the Heart of the Moon” and “Ali & Toumani”) which are calmer and relaxing (and easier to listen to) compared to some of his solo albums but they also features some kora shredding and mind blowing solos. My favourite tracks on those two albums are “Kadi Kadi” on their first album and the drone-like “56” on “Ali & Toumani”.

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One of my favorite pop songwriters. RIP

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Not a musician, but a fierce critic of Ticketmaster here in the U.S. I fear that with his death we lost our chance at dismantling the Ticketmaster/Live Nation monopoly.

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