Doussou bagayoko biography of nancy
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The Perusal #64: Marshall Allen, Trupa Trupa, Helen Ganya
February 10, 2025
A WORLD OF SONIC/MUSICAL DISCOVERIES REVIEWED BY DOMINIC VALVONA
PHOTO CREDIT: AYANA WILDGOOSE
Marshall Allen ‘New Dawn’
(Week-End Records) 14th February 2025
It’s timely and says a lot about the intentions and feel, the mood music, that the debut-led album by the centenary-celebrating alto saxophonist, flutist, oboist, piccolo player and Electric Wind Instrument synthesist Marshall Allen is set to be released on Valentine’s Day. Having led the late Saturn cultural ambassador Sun Ra’s Arkestra since 1995, and before that, been a creative foil to the celestial and Afro-jazz futurist progenitor since meeting in the late 1950s, Allen bathes in the sentimental romanticism of his former teacher’s vision with a love letter to the cosmos.
It’s staggering to believe that Allen has only just, in his hundredth year, been invited to record his inaugural bannered album. Sure,
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Kanawa on CD
Nahawa Doumbia's new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the bombastic range of contemporary Malian pop. The beautifully complex musical accompaniment that results is courtesy of the large ensemble she pulled together with producer and arranger (and day one collaborator) N'gou Bagayoko. The band features two highly expressive Malian string instruments, the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni, as well as a variety of percussion, drum programming, karignan (a metal scraper) and acoustic and electric guitars. Doumbia's daughter, a celebrated singer with her own group and busy
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Abstract
Background
Zaire Ebolavirus disease (EVD) outbreaks can be controlled using rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination and other public health measures. People in high-risk areas may have pre-existing antibodies from asymptomatic Ebolavirus exposure that might affect response to rVSV-ZEBOV. Therefore, we assessed the impact pre-existing immunity had on post-vaccination IgG titre, virus neutralisation, and reactogenicity following vaccination.
Methods
In this prospective cohort study, 2115 consenting close contacts (“proches”) of EVD survivors were recruited. Proches were vaccinated with rVSV-ZEBOV and followed up for 28 days for safety and immunogenicity. Anti-GP IgG titre at baseline and day 28 was assessed bygd ELISA. Samples from a representative subset were evaluated using live virus neutralisation.
Results
Ten percent were seropositive at baseline. At day 28, IgG in baseline seronegative (GMT 0.106 IU/ml, 95% CI: 0.100 to 0.113) and seropositive (GMT 0.237 IU/ml, 0.210 to 0.267) p