Bilal Abdurahman - Echoes of Timbuktu and Beyond in Congo Square [CD]

Bilal Abdurahman - Echoes of Timbuktu and Beyond in Congo Square (CD NEW)

Label: Folkways Records
Format: CD
Release Date: 30 May 2012

Brand New

Album Tracks

1. Images
2. Interlude-Ugandan Harp. Bilal Harp
3. Lament-Ugandan Harp. Bilal Voice and Harp
4. Transition, The-The Essence of Jazz
5. Blues Is Born, The- Bilal (Halam Solo)
6. Spirituals-Voice and Halam Accomp. Bilal
7. Fiddler of Congo Square-Bilal (Gogi)
8. Gogi Solo
9. Spirits of Congo Square-Bilal
10. Ancestral Ode-African Antelope Horn
11. Variation I African Balaphone & Shakers
12. Variation II Balaphone
13. Variation III Clarinet and Balaphone
14. Narration, Humming, African Balaphone. Tenor Saxophone. Bila L
15. Nice Moan'in-Three Blues Narrations By Bilal
16. Afriscat Rhapsody- Composed and Played By Bilal
17. Fusion-Bilal
18. Congo Square Procession-Bilal
19. African Memoirs-Tone Poem. Bilal

Kings, Queens and lesser royal-emeshed in a web of til and toil; They crossed a sea in great despair from Timbuktu to Congo Square. This collection of music and poetry by Bilal Abdurahman is an investigation of the roots of African-American music. Abdurahman's awareness of the unmistakable influences of African musical traditions on jazz is shown on this album as he plays various African instruments including the balaphone [balafon] and the halam[xalam] in the music which accompanies his jazz poetry.