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In earlier times when kings ruled West Africa, the kora was the instrument which accompanied the royal storytellers. Now that the kings are dead or in early retirement we have decided to sit the kora on the empty throne.... and to let it play with a joyful band of many colours.King Kora is a 10 musician griot orchestra that has been playing over a 150 concerts in Switzerland, Germany, France, and Westafrica in the 8 years since they first met...and they would love to play also in Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, UK, Paleo Festival, Couleur Cafe and many many more. PLEASE! They are more than ready for that!! Most of the you can hear on that page and the two vidoe clips below are from their Gambia River Tour in february 2007.King Kora would like to thank Popkredit der Stadt ZÃ¼rich, Migros Kulturprozent and Culture and Development, Berne, for their kind support of the CH concerts 2007!And now take a look at GAMBIA RIVER TOUR PART IGAMBIA RIVER TOUR PART II

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Member Since: 1/19/2007
Band Website: kingkora.com
Band Members: LAMIN JOBARTEH - Kora & Vocals, MARCO SIGRIST - Guitar, SYLVAIN PETITE - Drum, MAX NDIAYE - Percussion, JEAN-CLAUDE TORKO - Bass, BRANDY BUTLER - Vocals, ALINA AMURI - Vocals, ADRIEN OGGIER - Trumpet & Flugelhorn, MICHAEL FLURY - Trombone, ROGER GREIPL - Saxophones & Vocals
Influences: Amadou Jobarteh, Fela Kuti, Antonin Dvorak, Die Aeronauten, Super Rail Band, Mali Music, Kongo Music, Merkurya Getachew....
Sounds Like: You can hear a funky griot playing the kora on the edge of tradition and creation riding on deep manding, afro-beat and all king of grooves singing history but also his stories. You can hear talking drums, crying guitars and laughing horns and above all, a music that reflects all the battles and the coming together of musicians from different cultures.
Record Label: RecRec / Indigo / Nocturne / Hoanzn / Sambinha
Type of Label: Indie

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mach es wie die schildkröte

diesen sommer ist es 10 jahre her, dass ich lamin in einem zürcher übungsraum getroffen habe und nächstes jahr ist unser 10 jähriges bandjubiläum. da macht man sich halt schon gedanken....sagen wir's ...
Posted by KING KORA on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:20:00 PST

Anmerkungen zu den Liveaufnahmen

Jamba Sane: Aufnahme aus Kuntaur. Nachdem zum ersten Mal auf unserer Tour der Soundcheck fast pannenlos über die Bühne gegangen war, hiess es plötzlich zu Beginn des Konzert's Ihr habt noch 15mi...
Posted by KING KORA on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:59:00 PST

Back from the Gambia river tour

It was too much! Too much good, too much worries, too much rice and too much nice. At the end of our 2 weeks tour we had played 8 concerts (Sanyang, Georgetown, Basse Santa Su, Bansang, Kuntaur, Sukut...
Posted by KING KORA on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:25:00 PST

It's nice to be nice

It's nice to be nice(written by Karsten Kemmer after an overdose of basic Gambian philosophy)listen guyshear my adviceyou need to have riceit's nice to have icebut most of alleverybody: it's nice to b...
Posted by KING KORA on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:22:00 PST