


Undulating atop a musical base featuring violin, the djembe goblet drum, a call-and-response choir, and the kamalengoni harp, Sangare daringly speaks out against such traditional practices as polygamy and arranged marriages. And while she would go on to cut albums with a mix of traditional and tastefully chosen Western elements, Moussoulou captures Sangare in all her sensual acoustic glory. Finding her way to the city of Abidjan in 1989, Sangare cut a cassette that would eventually sell close to a quarter of a million copies it became her debut disc, compliments of the World Circuit label.

Ah Ndiya Hailing from the Wassoulou forest region of Mali, singer Oumou Sangare.

It reminded me of something I had recorded years ago, same key, same sort of beat. I was eating dinner with a friend at La Biznaga just before the art opening the other night, when I heard this music. The process explores the personal voices (subpersonalities), similar to gestalt therapy, but also adds the transcendent voices, such as Big Mind (Divine Mind, Buddha Mind, Spirit) and Big Heart (compassion). You may be interested in checking out the Big Mind process - which comes out of the intersection of Zen (and the perennial philosophy) and Voice Dialogue (similar to gestalt therapy). Says so: Btw: I see from your website () that you also do gestalt therapy.
