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If he grew up in the American South, perhaps he would have been a banjo player. Instead, Bassekou Kouyate grew up in Mali and plays the ngoni, a small stringed wood-and-animal hide instrument that, with a few tweaks, could easily contest an opposing plucker in a serenade of “dueling banjos.” A peer of the great Béla Fleck and the Björk-endorsed mbira whiz Toumani Diabate, Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba have pushed the traditional instrument to new heights using an intricate hand flourish technique and dabbling in electric guitar effects and feedback in his experimental sound. - Curtis Cartier sanjose.com
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