Will Ridenour - Will Ridenour CD

Will Ridenour - Will Ridenour [COMPACT DISCS] Duplicated CD : This CD is an instrumental, intimate venture into traditional and original West-African Kora music. Most of the songs are solo or multi-tracked kora. Acoustic guitar compliments on 4 songs, percussion (jembe, dunun, shekere, karinyan) on another. Most of the songs were composed for a wedding celebration in December '06. All are original except for 'Alla La Ke', which is a part of traditional kora repertoire. The Kora is a 21-stringed bridge-harp from West-Africa originating, according to oral traditions, with the Senegambian Mandinka of the Kabu Empire, which encompassed parts of present-day Guinea-Bissau, southern Senegal, and the Gambia. The strings are made of fishing line and they resonate through a large, halved calabash gourd stretched with a cow hide. The Kora traditionally is played by mandinka jalis and mande jelis, a special caste of society that work as musicians and oral historians. They are walking libraries of information, artisans of sound and speech. Will Ridenour comes