{"id":41501,"date":"2019-09-04T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T09:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/malian-singer-nahawa-doumbias-debut-album-reissued-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:12:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:12:51","slug":"nahawa-doumbia-debut-album-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nahawa-doumbia-debut-album-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia’s debut album reissued for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Released in 1981 by the excellent Ivory Coast-based\u00a0AS Records,\u00a0on her debut album,\u00a0La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1,\u00a0<\/em>Nahawa performs brilliantly with tenacity and hunger.<\/h4>\n

Recorded when she was barely 20 years old, La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1<\/em> looks back to the beginning of Doumbia\u2019s long career when her voice was remarkably strong yet still developing.\u00a0Her work journeys through progressive stages of musical evolution and sonic vogues, making it hard to summarize or even comprehend. She’s played a part in popular music since the late \u201870s, as her version of Wassoulou music developed from a vocals-and-guitar duo into full-scale touring bands packing a bombastic, electrified punch.<\/p>\n

Accompanied by her future husband N\u2019Gou Bagayoko on acoustic guitar, whose style echoes the nimble runs of traditional kamele n\u2019goni players. The stark simplicity of this highly intimate recording\u2014the audible room acoustics, the occasionally in-the-red vocals\u2014do not obscure the mature strength of her voice.<\/p>\n

“When I think about it, first, I am reminded of how long ago it was. It’s one of the albums that I love most because it reminds me of my youth. I was so young and my voice was light and joyful. I still listen to some of those songs today. I am really proud of that first album because that\u2019s where it all began…” explains Nahawa.<\/p>\n

La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1\u00a0<\/em>reissue coming out Sept 20 via Awesome Tapes From Africa, you can pre-order it now<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nahawa<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Released in 1981 by the excellent Ivory Coast-based\u00a0AS Records,\u00a0on her debut album,\u00a0La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1,\u00a0Nahawa performs brilliantly with tenacity and hunger. Recorded when she was barely 20 years old, La Grande Cantatrice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":28653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4282,10635],"location":[8132],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41501"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41501"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41501"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}