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That experience seems to have primed him to find pathways to many other styles, and on his three previous albums with Doumbia they've pulled off daring fusions -- like funking up the circular Malian blues popularized by Ali Farka Toure with an arsenal of instruments from around the world, including horns, tabla, violin, the sweet-voiced Portuguese cavaquinho, and the Arabic zither called the kanun -- but their current record, Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch), tops them all.

Chicago Reader 2010

That experience seems to have primed him to find pathways to many other styles, and on his three previous albums with Doumbia they've pulled off daring fusions -- like funking up the circular Malian blues popularized by Ali Farka Toure with an arsenal of instruments from around the world, including horns, tabla, violin, the sweet-voiced Portuguese cavaquinho, and the Arabic zither called the kanun -- but their current record, Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch), tops them all.

Chicago Reader 2010

4 Even the English word 'canon' comes from the Arabic word kanun meaning 'law' or

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Uri Shalin's piano contribution on "I and You" sturdily lifts this already beautiful melody, while Tamar Pinarbasi's kanun is splendid on the rhythmic "To A Lady In A Dream."

Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Songs of Wonder and Planetary Grooves Derek Beres 2011

Uri Shalin's piano contribution on "I and You" sturdily lifts this already beautiful melody, while Tamar Pinarbasi's kanun is splendid on the rhythmic "To A Lady In A Dream."

Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Songs of Wonder and Planetary Grooves Derek Beres 2011

How many family issues have they resolved (Agawid ka kanun kuna ni Mamam ta … etc., etc.)?

DZRK, Radyo Natin, and the Rest 2008

Cemal's long, serpentine solos slither over percolating rhythms played on the darbouka, an ancient hand drum; clarinet arrives in vocalic sobs, chuckles, and sighs; and lightning-quick improvisations on the kanun, a type of zither, are marvels of pointillistic melody.

Chicago Reader 2010

Leader Julien Jalal Edinne, born Bernard Weiss in France in 1953, studied Western classical music as a youngster, but upon encountering the kanun -- an Arabic zither -- he threw himself into Arabic classical music and eventually moved to Damascus, where he formed the band in 1983 and converted to Islam in 1986.

Chicago Reader 2010

He is using a full-immersion method similar to the one he used on "Maria" to delve into the intricacies of Albania's centuries-old blood-feud code of conduct, known as "kanun."

Variety.com 2010

For these appearances Cemal will be joined by an excellent Gypsy band, plus Harold Hagopian, the New York-based record producer who owns Traditional Crossroads, on kanun.

Chicago Reader 2010