Peaceful Sounds of the Kora! African String Instrument. Malick Kouyate London SouthBank Busking TLT

Brighton Beach Busking presents you, our new programme The London Trip (TLT). A new series of trips to London filming it`s amazing buskers & street artists. We found Malick Kouyate playing Kora at the SouthBank in London. Beautiful busking. Do you know what a Kora is?

Kora is the African String Instrument. The kora musical instrument is the African lute from the coast of West African. This special instrument belong to the chordophone family. It’s so much related to Harp and Lute but not the same as both. It can be refer to as a complex string instrument of African origin as it has around twenty-one (21) strings. Kora known as the African lute is one of the oldest African Instruments, that has been in existence since the 13th century. This was during the reign of Sundiata the great of the Mali Empire. The kora is a musical instrument of a class, it has just over three octaves with a distinct and soft sound. In fact, the sound and music of the Kora are very pleasant to the ear.
Kora is played by musicians majorly for accompaniment of local poetry and sometime speech. There are some player that prefer attachment of metal rings to the neck of their instrument. These metal ring will rattle with a percussive buzzing sound when the Kora is playing and also serve as a natural amplifier.

The Kora has been in existence and has been played in the West Africa for almost 200 years. The origin of it cannot be specifically stated but Gambia and Senegal are the most famous for the instrument. However, there are famous players in the other region of West Africa like Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Mali, and Guinea. In a nut shell, Kora is peculiar to the people of Mandinka, an ethnic group in the West Africa. Find out more about the Kora: https://phamoxmusic.com/kora-musical-...

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