Ko-Yan | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Salif Keita |
Cover: | Koyan.jpg |
Released: | 1989 |
Recorded: | 1989 |
Genre: | Malian music |
Length: | 42:07 |
Language: | Malinké |
Label: | Mango |
Producer: | François Breant |
Prev Title: | Soro |
Prev Year: | 1987 |
Next Title: | Amen |
Next Year: | 1991 |
Ko-Yan is an album by the Malian musician Salif Keita.[1] [2] It was released in 1989 by Mango Records.[3] It was recorded in Paris.[4]
The album contains more influence from Western music, while still maintaining a traditional style. All the songs were written by Keita, including "Nou Pas Bouger", one of his first hits.
The New York Times wrote: "Synthesizers and Western horns perk along (sometimes sounding like Weather Report on Ko-Yan), but the underlying rhythms percolate in triple time, and it's hard for a Western ear to predict where Mr. Keita's vocal lines, and the responses of his female backup singers, will begin or end."[5] The Edmonton Journal noted that Keita's music "injects the stirring traditional rhythms of Mali with nourishing contemporary textures—funk, soca, and soul."[6]