Welcome at Kora Jaliya The Art of the Kora this project is devoted to the music, the culture and the musicians of the most demanding and highest developped African string instrument

Web www.kora-music.com

Kora - the instrument
Jaliya - the culture of the Jali (Griot)
construction of the instrument
stringing and tuning
the relatives of the Kora

character and structure of the Kora music
scales and tunings
notation system

Kora Kosi - playing techniques
strings and modes
intervals and their usage
Detero - dampening technique
Sariro - strumming technique
Bulukondingo Podi - percussive technique
Konkondiro - accompanying percussion

Jaliya V4 Teaching Software for Westafrican music and instruments

Jaliya V4 Full Version offers more than 120 authentic notations of the most famous pieces from the Kora repertoire of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinée und Mali, based on interpretations of more than 30 musicians, among them traditional Griots as well as internationally known masters like:

Jali Nyama Suso, Alhaji Bai Konte, Dembo Konte, Amadou Bansang Jobarteh, Lalo Keba Drame, Foday Musa Suso, Sidiki Diabate, Batrou Sekou Kouyate, Toumani Diabate, Mamadou Diabate

Jaliya V4 Full Version costs 100 Euro, see Download Page for details.


• world-wide only Archive of original Kora music
• audio-visual tablature Notation System with innovative notation Editor interface
• Kora Bridge with strings, flashing synchronously with the music, visualizing all playing techniques in detail
• Notation Player with freely adjustable tempo control and loop functions
• microtonal Tuner with predefined traditional tunings

Jaliya V4 Full Version offers also more than 300 authentic notations of Westafrican rhythms for Percussion Ensemble (Djembe, Kenkeni, Dundun, Sangpan, Dundunba).

This most complete collection of polyrhythmic drum grooves is also available separately:

Jaliya V4 Percussion Edition costs 50 Euro, see Download Page for details.

Jaliya V4 features now notations, original sounds and animated visualizations of following instruments:


• Kora - bridgeharp from Gambia/Senegal/Mali, configurations for 21, 22, 23, 24 strings, heptatonic
  
• Donso Ngoni - bridgeharp from Mali, 6 strings, pentatonic
  
• Goni Burkina - bridgeharp from Burkina Faso, 8 strings, pentatonic
  
• Balafon Manding - xylophone from Gambia/Senegal/Mali, heptatonic
  
• Balafon Burkina - xylophone from Burkina Faso, pentatonic
  
• Balafon Lobi - xylophone from Ghana, pentatonic
  
• Valiha - bamboo zither from Madagascar, 18 strings, heptatonic
  
• Marovany - box zither aus Madagascar, 18 strings, heptatonic
  
• Mvet - stick zither from Cameroon, 8 strings, tetratonic
  
• Percussion - Malinke Ensemble, Guinée
  
• Percussion2 - Malinke Ensemble small, Guinée
  
  
More instruments to come !
You can even sample your own instrument, integrate it in Jaliya V4, create and play notations with the original sounds of your instrument in any tempo and any tuning.

See some screenshots of Jaliya V4.

get the innovative Jaliya V4 Teaching Software for Westafrican music and instruments

Windows Systems only, sorry
use a WinXP Emulator (i.e. Virtual PC) if you're on MacOS or Linux

wave and midi sound files captured from the Jaliya V4 Software
MP3 files of several band projects

some common Mandinka terms

other interesting Kora related sites

very complete Kora discography, traditional and modern, from Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Guinée, Guinea Bissau

to those who have inspired this project

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and other stuff I'm doing

Concert Projects:

		Traditional Kora Music with two Koras, Sentir and Ngoni, jazzy Saxes and Percussion
		Afro Oriental World Music
		Persian Sufi Trance Music

will be constantly improved.

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Translation to English, French and Dutch is in process.

Now Playing: Allah l'a ke, here is more

and here is the notation of the music playing.