http://afropopshop.org<img src='http://files.afropopshop.org/images/41459/kelea_100.jpg'>In the eighties, the kamale ngoni becomes the symbol of a new movement that tries to shake up the neocolonial mentality. They reject the wooden language of the griots, and their eternal praise for a corrupted elite. The texts of the Wassalou music are closer to the people, the rough and rusty sound of the kamale ngoni expresses a rebel aesthetic, close to the earth, the shanty town. In the studios, they fight over the Kamale ngoni virtuosi, who become the &laquo; guitar heros &raquo; of Wassalou &laquo; rock &raquo;. Starting from the end of the eighties, this success will lead to a bastardization of the genre, with the eruption of synthetizers and sampler rhythms. Rediscovering the acoustic dimension and restoring the sound of the rebel hunters in all its rusty splendor is the vocation of the present recording.Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:09:01 -0600http://kamalengoni.afropopshop.org/#album_41459