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Diboli (2024)

Tamala

In their third album ‘Diboli’, Tamala officially presents itself as a quartet, with harmonica player and guitarist Olivier Vander Bauwede as the band’s new member. Diboli, a border town between Senegal and Mali where Mola Sylla’s ancestors come from, symbolises the link with the past. The album is a tribute to all the musicians who have contributed to West Africa’s rich musical traditions but whose names have often disappeared throughout history. It also stands for the ancestors who have supported the development of humanity in their own manner. Each note on the album exudes this spiritual link with the past in a contemporary context.

TITLES

  1. Garap
  2. Xeesal
  3. May ma Sara
  4. Kiñaan
  5. Alkebulan
  6. Diboli

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Via Muziekpublique

  • By postal delivery: order on our website
  • At our office from Tuesday to Friday between 10.30-13.00 and 15-18.00, or during the concerts.

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  • In good record shops in Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, France

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€ 15,00

Press Tamala

“A magical album full of diversity that holds you captive until the last note…”
Folker.world (DE)
07/03/2025
Erik Prochnow
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“Diboli focuses on long, circling pieces that immerse the griot culture in a floating, improvisational field, sometimes playing…
JazzThing (DE)
01/02/2025
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“Rather unusual is the striking use of the violin, occasionally even the harmonica, which conveys a surprising…
Ohrenschmauch (DE)
15/01/2025
Günter
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“A homage to the rich musical tradition of West Africa that is also a joy to listen…
Audio.de (DE)
08/01/2025
Claus Dick
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“Everything fits together wonderfully.”
FOLK magazin
26/12/2024
hedo
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“Harmony between the musicians, between the instruments and the voice, between the music and the listener, and…
Ekultura (HU)
25/12/2024
Galgóczi Tamás
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“It is a global album that is greater than the sum of its parts, to be enjoyed…
De Subjectivisten (NL)
21/12/2024
Jan Willem
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“An album that can only be recommended.”
Musik Global (BE)
Fredi Hallauer
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“Enjoyable album for lovers of intimate acoustic West African sounds.”
Tropicalidad (BE)
17/12/2024
Tim Ianna
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“Tamala plays emotional African songs.  With the addition of harmonica a new path is taken.”
Keys and Chords (NL)
30/11/2024
Marino Serdons
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“Diboli musically looks back to old Africa, with an open vision to the future: where African instruments…
Music Frames (BE)
20/11/2024
Mattie Poels
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“This is multiculturalism at its best …  here music is fascinating, moving and simply beautiful. An album…
Moors magazine (BE)
14/11/2024
Holly Moors
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“African singer-songwriter music rarely sounds more beautiful than on Diboli.”
Heaven Magazine (NL)
04/11/2024
Eric Van Domburg Scipio
“All in all, this is yet another great record from close to our front door.”
Rootstime.be (BE)
03/11/2024
Dani Heyvaert
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“A real success.”
Jazzmania.be (BE)
10/01/2022
Claudy Jalet
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“Lumba is an album with a clear message, carried by beautiful West African music with lyrics written…
MixedWorldMusic.com (BE)
10/12/2021
Rik van Boeckel
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“A haunting and majestic blues record, both choral and intimate, solar and introspective.”
Le Soir
02/12/2021
Thierry Coljon
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“With Lumba Tamala again creates a rock-solid album that can convince both substantively and musically!”
01/12/2021
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“Between Senegal and Belgium, the world full of humanity of the travelling musicians Tamala.”
RTBF
26/11/2021
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“Musically speaking, this fine CD is a bit like peeling an onion…with each new layer, you find…
KLOF MAGAZINE (UK)
25/11/2021
Philip Thomas
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“Rubbed, pinched or vocal, their strings complement each other wonderfully…”
Le Monde (FR)
04/11/2021
Fabien Mollon
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“Just now and then, a record comes along in which everything about it seems to perfectly embody…
RootsWorld (US)
01/11/2021
Mike Adcock
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“The pleasure in listening to them is confirmed by the release of “Lumba”, their second album, recorded…
Blogfoolk Magazine (IT)
28/10/2021
Alessio Surian
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“While respect for humans and nature is at the heart of this project, it was still necessary…
Larsen (IT)
01/10/2021
Jean-Pierre Goffin
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“… a very positive and rather beautiful album.”
RNR Magazine (BE)
Norman Darwen
“A record of a sweet freshness which however never lacks a gravity that is worth a great…
5Planètes (NL)
Etienne Bours
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“The trio favours its original compositions and medium-tempo rhythms, exalting the wide expressive range of Mola Sylla’s…
Ekultura (HU)
28/02/2019
Galgóczi Tamás
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“The Tamala trio explores the infinite possibilities of encounters between instruments and musical worlds.”
(NL)
18/12/2018
“Sizzling with tempered acoustic power, this album seals the interweaving of South and North, exuding an unprecedented…
New Folk Sounds (UK)
25/05/2018
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“These musicians respect traditions audibly, but that doesn’t stop them from looking for new ways, their own…
(NL)
25/03/2018
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“Sylla has plenty of space to enchant with his voice. The contrast between his emphatic presence as…
Mixedworldmusic.com (BE)
16/12/2017
Ton Maas
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“It’s infectious and the only cure might be to listen some more!”
Music Republic Magazine (BE)
10/11/2017
Simon Redley
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“Music that comes straight from the heart.”
vrije geluiden (BE)
06/11/2017
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“Sublime!”
Moors Magazine (US)
01/11/2017
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