{"id":41868,"date":"2019-03-28T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/international-soleil-bands-west-african-disco-hit-ta-lassa-reissued\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:54","slug":"international-soleil-bands-west-african-disco-hit-ta-lassa-reissued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/international-soleil-bands-west-african-disco-hit-ta-lassa-reissued\/","title":{"rendered":"International Soleil Band&#8217;s West African Disco hit &#8216;Ta Lassa&#8217; reissued"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23022 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-Soleil-Band.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-Soleil-Band.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-Soleil-Band-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-Soleil-Band-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-Soleil-Band-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-Soleil-Band-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h5>\n<h4>The International Soleil Band was\u00a0formed by a\u00a0bunch of Malian and Guinean musicians who recorded a unique album in 1983 on French label WAM\u00a0(West african music).<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Ta Lassa&#8221;, from this unique album, was composed by Gnamakoron Sidi Diabate, a member of the combo including the famous Guinean griot Mory Djeli Kouyat\u00e9. A magnificent singer part of <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLp1TCftlArnKgun7LfnvSm8j0pDCjK2kK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 Band of Kankan<\/a><\/span> (Upper Guinean) and then the Band Revolution of the same city,\u00a0he has\u00a0recently been\u00a0seen performing on European stages as a duo with brilliant keyboardist Jean-Philippe Rykiel.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s get back to &#8220;Ta Lassa&#8221;. This dancefloor killer is a blend of traditional rhythms, syncoped guitar riffs and nervous organ solo parts and a recognisable Guinean vocal outing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3529010501\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/ta-lassa\">Ta Lassa by International Soleil Band<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is really all about Guinean genius, authentic, fruit of the ambitious cultural policy led by Sekou Toure in the aftermath of the country&#8217;s independence. At that time when this song was recorded, the Great Orchestras that represented the country were less and less supported, due to economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The artists had been left to their own to create their private orchestras, often ephemeral.<br \/>\nThis may have been the case of the International Soleil Band, that leaves us with only one record, whose title track &#8220;Ta Lassa&#8221; is the most beautiful offering, reissued today by the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/tag\/soundway-records\/\">Soundway label<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order a copy of <em>Ta Lassa<\/em> ahead of its 17 April release on <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/ta-lassa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Stream\u00a0this track and other similar gems in our Afro Groove Party playlist on <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/3br8AcCZxoMFb2xRu6IWuW?si=pqYjdDEjQde4POqjWTmn3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/1886980042?utm_source=deezer&amp;utm_content=playlist-1886980042&amp;utm_term=924740661_1553784368&amp;utm_medium=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/fela-kuti-unknown-soldier\/\">How Unknown Soldier became Fela\u2019s most emotional record<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Soleil Band was\u00a0formed by a\u00a0bunch of Malian and Guinean musicians who recorded a unique album in 1983 on French label WAM\u00a0(West african music). &#8220;Ta Lassa&#8221;, from this unique album, was composed by Gnamakoron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4087,4095,4900],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868"}],"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=41868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41868"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41868"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}