Touré Kunda Heritage revived

Touré Kunda was one of the first African "supergroups", being very popular throughout West Africa, but also world wide, especially in France where they sold in excess of 100,000 albums during the 1980s. One of their emblematic albums was a live registration « Paris-Ziguinchor ».

 

Now, all principal founding members have passed away, and the album is almost 40 years old, some of the sons and nephews will organise a heritage concert on 10 October 2023, in the New Morning, in Paris. Daby Touré, Ismail Touré and Modou Touré will sing, and play guitar and percussion.

More info from the organiser: 

UNE VIBRANTE CELEBRATION AUTOUR d'un des albums les plus emblématiques de la musique ouest-africaine et un Hommage aux trois freres Touré disparus Amadou, Hamidou et Ismael. C’est au cours des années 1980 qu’un phénomène musical va embraser la France puis le reste du monde. Pour la première fois, un groupe afro fait danser des stades du Japon aux Etats-Unis, en passant par l’Europe et bien sur l’Afrique. 30 ans plus tard, trois cousins qui partagent depuis l'enfance un même amour pour cet héritage musical, proposent une célébration du groupe de leurs pères et oncles… Daby Touré, Ismail Touré et Modou Touré au chant, à la guitare et aux percussions offrent un spectacle magique, fidèle à l’énergie et à l’émotion scénique de l’époque, pour le plus grand bonheur du public qui va les découvrir. La scène du New Morning à Paris vibrera pour leur tout premier concert le 10 Octobre prochain. Ne vous faites pas raconter l’évènement ! Avec Michel Billies (saxophone), Pascal Dalmaso (guitare), Davy Honnet Touré (batterie), Anthony Honnet Touré (clavier) et Rody Cereyon (bass). "J’étais un petit garçon en Afrique quand mon père m’a fait écouter le premier album des Touré Kunda. Je me souviendrai toujours de ce moment magique. Plus tard, mon père a rejoint le groupe Touré Kunda comme chanteur et j'ai vécu un moment historique, sur le parvis des Droits de l’Homme, esplanade du Trocadéro à Paris, quand, sous une pluie battante, ils ont chanté et dansé pour célébrer Nelson Mandela. Je venais tout juste d’arriver en France, j’avais les larmes aux yeux", se souvient Daby

600,000 Page Views on Musiques d'Afrique

In less than 2 years and 11 months, we witness another 100,000 page views on musiques-afrique.net, now totalling 600,000 page views, according to our Gostats Widget.

 

 Considering we are still in the middle of a major update and restructuring of pages, we are quite happy with slowly increasing number of visits. With more than 77% of all pages redesigned and accessible, exposure is indeed increasing.

100,000 visitors on Musiques d'Afrique

 

It is now the counter of distinct visitors that has reached the milestone of 100,000 visitors on our Gostats counter widget, counting since April 2014.

Until today, not all pages are counting because of a major update of www.musiques-afrique.net. This an operation which takes a lot of time, because older pages have to be redesigned, and the structure of the website is being changed. As traffic on our website is increasing, we hope that our counter widget is showing higher figures soon!

100,000 sessions on Musiques d'Afrique

Only 8 days after the mark of the 500,000 page views, we reached 100,000 web visit sessions, according to Gostats.org (since 14 April 2014). Thank you to all our readers/visitors, and Merry Christmas and all the best wishes for 2020, (or as we say in Dutch "have a nice old and new" :-)

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Half a million pageviews on our main site Musiques d'Afrique

If a website is more than 20 years old, it is difficult to track page views and visitor numbers over such a long period of time, as web counters sometimes tend to disappear, probably because they are facing harsh competition from services such as Google Analytics. Changing hosting provider does not help either...! Bearing this in mind, we are nevertheless proud to see that our Gostats widget shows an important number of page views on the 15th of December:

The real number is undoubtedly higher, as not all pages are currently being counted (for technical reasons). Also, we cumulated stats from the web host until 2014 to the Gostats statistics, because we are using Gostats since April 2014. We also lost some data in the transition from Gostats.com to Gostats.org. The figure of 500,000 page views reflects visits since the start of the web site in late 1997 (with very few visitors in the first years). The number of sessions and number of visitors, however, are counted only since April 2014, so these figures cannot be compared to the number of page views. As you can see, we will reach 100,000 web sessions in a few days.

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New Album Kharifa by Habib Koité

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