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I cannot separate my painted koras from their sounds and stories and friends.
This is what the nights sound like in Gambia where we spent two weeks in the village of Tambasansang to visit the family of our friend Omar and two weeks in Darisalam Bolombalola, Casamance, Senegambia to visit Madya's family.
On the fist track Madya is singing and Landing Kanoute plays kora and sings.
The two women singing are Bambi and Binta. We are in one of the dark rooms of the Suso's house.
The generator helped us record those nights.
The second peace is called Chedo and is played by Malang. Again we are in one of the dark rooms of the house and he is accompanied by Keidian on kora.
Both nights went on for almost three hours.
I hope you enjoy.