{"id":105296,"date":"2022-04-25T18:38:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=105296"},"modified":"2022-04-25T18:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:38:46","slug":"tioko-tioko-idrissa-soumaoro-mr-bongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tioko-tioko-idrissa-soumaoro-mr-bongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tioko-Tioko, Malian funk gem rediscovered by Mr Bongo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mr Bongo announces the reedition of a rare album from Malian musician Idrissa Soumaoro, initially released in 1978. <em>Le Tioko-Tioko<\/em>, from which the banger \u201cNissodia\u201d is taken, was recorded by Soumaoro and l\u2019Eclipse de l\u2019IJA.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Idrissa Soumaoro was born in 1949 in Ou\u00e9l\u00e9ss\u00e9bougou, a village 75 km away from Bamako, Mali. Throughout the course of his long career, he became an accomplished and respected musician. As a teacher, he became especially committed to the visually impaired and made it his life work to teach them music. It is the reason why he founded the orchestra of the Institute for visually impaired youth (Institut des jeunes aveugles): l\u2019Eclipse de l\u2019IJA where the duo Amadou and Mariam were trained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3449610992\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrbongo.bandcamp.com\/album\/le-tioko-tioko\">Le Tioko-Tioko by Idrissa Soumaoro, L\u2019Eclipse De L\u2019I.J.A.<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The album <em>Le Tioko-Tioko <\/em>was recorded at Radio Mali under the supervision of bluesman Boubacar Traor\u00e9 who worked as a sound engineer. It was distributed sporadically via the Malian Association for the Blind in Bamako. The 6-track recording then traveled to East Germany thanks to a student involved in an exchange program. The label Eterna subsequently decided to manufacture and release the vinyl. Only a handful of cases were sent back to Bamako and <em>Le Tioko-Tioko <\/em>fell into oblivion due to a lack of promotion, and distribution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, British label Mr Bongo strives to unearth these lost gems. In 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-original-sound-of-mali-will-be-available-the-31th-of-march-on-the-english-record-label-mr-bongo\/\">a compilation album named <em>The Original Sound of Mali<\/em><\/a> was unveiled by the label. It included two tracks from <em>Le Tioko-Tioko<\/em>:&nbsp; \u201cNissodia\u201d (<em>joy of optimism<\/em> in Bambara) and &#8220;Fama Allah\u201d (<em>an ode to god<\/em>). The former was later <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/mike-d-nissodia\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/mike-d-nissodia\/\">remixed in 2020 by former Beastie Boys\u2019s singer and drummer Mike D<\/a>. The British label was also the one to release this single. It is now time for the full album to receive a reedition, 45 years after its initial release, in the hope it will reach a wider audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Le <a href=\"https:\/\/mrbongo.bandcamp.com\/album\/le-tioko-tioko\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mrbongo.bandcamp.com\/album\/le-tioko-tioko\">Tioko-Tioko<\/a> <\/em>out May 13th via Mr Bongo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tioko_tioko-e1650897932607.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Bongo announces the reedition of a rare album from Malian musician Idrissa Soumaoro, initially released in 1978. Le Tioko-Tioko, from which the banger \u201cNissodia\u201d is taken, was recorded by Soumaoro and l\u2019Eclipse de l\u2019IJA.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":105298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[41172,25159,6390],"location":[8132],"yst_prominent_words":[8576,8403,17977,9172,8993,8995,21502,8414,8618,9163,21499,21485,8402,21504,10245,8619,10019],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105296"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=105296"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=105296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}