bargains on sublime West African discs

[Chris P]

at time of posting at least a couple of new bargains (less than £4 incl UK postage) on one of my all time favourite West African recordings :

Ali Boulo Santo with Hadja Kouyate : Manding-Ko

kora and female vocals of simply the best (and Kante Manfila guests on 1 track too). A very beautiful unsullied recording (with lovely non-plastic packaging too)

This is a public service announcement :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manding-Ko-Hadja-Kouyate/dp/B00005B6R0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1231441403&sr=1-4

[Des]

Yep it's a beautiful CD. Bargain.

[Gordon Neill]

I've never heard it or of it, but I can announce that there's one less copy of this CD for sale now and my sporran is £3.41 lighter. Ta for the tip.

[Chris P]

Update : bargain priced new copies both sold I see, and I predict at least 2 happy forumistas when they wrap their auracular flaps around the music.

[kk]

yes, thanks for the tip.... could not resist either

[Chris P]

3 new copies at bargain price of the now out-of-print & hard to find essential Mande ensemble album 'Sorotoumou' led by ngoni maestro Moriba Koita :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Moriba-Koita-Sorotoumou-CD-Mali_W0QQitemZ260386169936QQcmdZViewItemQQptZB%C3%BCcher_Unterhaltung_Music_CDs?hash=item260386169936&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A15%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

German eBay seller - clickable link via UK eBay for those in UK, others can search worldwide via their usual eBay

[Neil Foxlee]

Yes, but what's this doing in the Looking for an Echo category (subtitled "enquiries about half-remembered songs, records, etc")?
Yours,
The Pedantic Taxonomist.

[Des]

The Pedantic Taxonomist.

Since the printing of the current ed. of Collins, Redpoll has been split into three separate species: 1. COMMON REDPOLL Carduelis flammea (which are from northern scandinavia) 2. LESSER REDPOLL Carduelis cabaret (which are from southern scandinavia, and western/central Europe) and the default species in the UK 3. ARCTIC REDPOLL Carduelis hornemanni (as the name implies from arctic/n.scandinavia).

To make matters even more confusing, there are also 3 races of Common Redpoll: (Divided by range rather than split in separate species!)

So:

Additionally COMMON REDPOLL, Carduelis flammea (since the split) is further divided into three races, namely Mealy Redpoll (Carduelis flammea flammea), which breed in a broad band across Scandinavia, the Baltic Republics south to east Germany and Poland, USSR and North America; (This is the one you're likely to see here with the Lesser Redpolls in winter). Greenland Redpoll (Carduelis flammea rostrata) from Greenland and Baffin Island and Icelandic Redpoll (Carduelis flammea islandica) from Iceland.

[Neil Foxlee]

Strictly for the birds...