The music presented on these two releases comes from several mid 80s recording sessions that took place in Boston. Featured are tracks from Gilden's first recordings from his first albums: 'Kora I' and 'Kora II'. These were originally released between 1984 and 1985 on cassette.

In 1986 Gilden went back into the studio to record additional tracks for the release of Jato and Distant Strings. The music on Distant Strings and Jato was thoroughly remastered by a top mastering engineer in NYC. Low Level noise (pops & clicks) have been painstaking removed, endings have been cleaned up, the track to track ambiances have been balanced. Even the title track "Jato" was a given dynamic detail that was missing from the original release. This is first time these studio performances have been heard with such clarity.

1. Masane Sise
2. Dioula
3. Mamadu Masina
4. Tabara
5. Kelfaba
6. Yarabi
7. Jato (The Lion)
8. Belam Ba
9. Alpha Ya Ya

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 1/8/2011
David Gilden lives in Texas USA

Tagged as: New Age, World, African influenced

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