The griot Trio Da Kali reached the top spot on the Transglobal World Music Chart this time with the title “Bagola”.
In their new album Bagola, Trio Da Kali present newly-composed songs accompanied on balafon and ngoniba, that provide a rich accompaniment to the spectacular voice of Hawa Kasse Mady Diabaté. She inherits her singing style from her father, the late Kasse Mady Diabaté, who was widely recognised as one of Africa’s all-time greatest singers, and won a Grammy nomination in 2004. Hawa’s voice has an exquisite purity and expressiveness, with a wide emotional range. She is equally at home in the lively, 9/8 rhythms of the title track Bagola, a light-hearted critique of men in Malian society, to the soulful Orpaillage, a song that laments the destruction of land from gold-panning. Trio Da Kali were founded in 2013 under the initiative of the Aga Khan Music Programme, with the help of three-times Grammy-nominated music producer Lucy Durán. The Trio first rose to international fame with their sublime album Ladilikan (World Circuit Records 2017), featuring an unprecedented and multi-award-winning collaboration with Kronos Quartet, the legendary classical string quartet from San Francisco. Bagola is a showcase of Trio Da Kali’s entrancing and unique sound, only equalled by their magical performances on stage.
Top albums April 2025:
- Trio Da Kali · Bagola · One World [2]
- Samba Touré · Baarakelaw · Glitterbeat [1]
- Songhoy Blues · Héritage · Transgressive [21]
- Arat Kilo · Danama · Accords Croisés [18]
- Park Jiha · All Living Things · Tak:til / Glitterbeat [14]
- Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali · At the Feet of the Beloved · Real World [5]
- Jupiter & Okwess · Ekoya · Airfono [9]
- Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto · Djiyo · Ma Case Prod [20]
- Ensemble Chakâm · Les Vents Brûlants · Ensemble Chakâm [-]
- Kankou Kouyate · N’Darila · One World [-]
- Santrofi · Making Moves · Outhere [4]
- Flook · Sanju · Flatfish [27]
- Frigg · Dreamscapes · Bafe’s Factory [11]
- Novalima · La Danza (Deluxe Version) · Six Degrees [16]
- Aïta Mon Amour · Abda · Shouka [-]
- Al Andaluz Project · The Songs of Iman Kandoussi: Traditional Arabic Andalusian · Galileo Music Communication [3]
- Alsarah & The Nubatones · Seasons Of The Road · Alsarah & The Nubatones [-]
- Damily & Toliara Tsapiky Band · Fihisa · Damily [-]
- Aboubakar Traoré & Balima · Sababu · Zephyrus [7]
- Ukandanz · Evil Plan · Compagnie 4000 [-]
- Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra · Tension · Batov [12]
- L’Alba · Grilli · Buda Musique [13]
- Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad · Ebo Taylor JID022 · Jazz Is Dead [-]
- Fanoos Ensemble · Echoes of Afghanistan · Fanoos Ensemble [34]
- Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa / Warsaw Village Band & Bassałyki · Sploty / Twines · Karrot Kommando [6]
- Muslim Shaggan · Asar · Honiunhoni [-]
- Anne-Mari Kivimäki · Kotiin · Rockadillo [31]
- Christine Zayed · Kama Kuntu · T-Rec [8]
- Rastak · Tales of Earth and Sun · Rastak [-]
- Rita Donte · Ritual · Ansonia [19]
- L. Shankar · Full Moon · X DOT 25 Music [38]
- Tatros Együttes · Pillanat · Tatros Együttes [-]
- Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band · Roi de l’Agbadja Moderne 1974-1983 · Analog Africa [24]
- Áššu · Luohtenlegut · Nordic Notes / CPL-Musicgroup [23]
- Mario Lucio · Independance · Maremusica [26]
- De Mar y Río · Bailen y Gocen · Palenque [-]
- Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko · Our Calling · Nø Førmat! [-]
- Sauljaljui · Vaivaik · Wind Music [15]
- Ozan Baysal · Tel ve Ten · ARC Music [-]
- Okwy Osadebe and Highlife SoundMakers International · Music for Igbo Masquerade · Odogwu Entertainment / Palenque [-]
NMR (photo: press Trio Da Kali)
Founder members and administrators Transglobal World Music Chart:
Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES)
Current active members:
Alexis Herrería (MX), Rosângela Britto (BR), Ula Nowak (PL), Liana Cisneros (PE), Banning Eyre (US), Magda Tejchma (PL), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN/US), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (BE), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Chen Hanzi (CN), Takuya “Salam” Unagami (JP), Janaína Ávila (BR), Roger Short (UK), Ankur Malhotra (IN)
More at: https://www.transglobalwmc.com/
