Instrumental world music with flute and guitar
A CD with cheerful melodic instrumental tunes on groovin’ afro-latin beats
It’s quite a few years ago now that I rode my motorbike on the dusty dirt roads around the small village of Toma, 
Upper Volta. My head was filled with the sounds of the musical heroes of the day, Salif Keita, Sory Bamba, Lokassa. During siesta time the small bar (buvette) next to my house played the same 10 scratchy records over
and over again, and I began to notice the guitar riffs of the soukous from Congo, the bluesy feel of the records from Mali, the haunting grooves from Bobo Dioulasso. I decided to buy a few of those records myself on one of my visits to Ouagadougou.
I played them over and over ...
Tracks
Tracks
Beat the Dentist
A laid-back Mali groove going into reggae, going into a flute solo on a bossa beat. And more. Written for a girl who had to go to the dentist, hence the title. (whole track!)
A Brazilian in Bamako
A jazzy bossa-nova melody evolves into a groove from Mali (whole track!).