Ballaké Sissoko undisputedly Mali’s finest living kora player. Diabaté had fallen largely silent in the years before he died, apart from a glorious one-take collaborative record with the ...
“The Hendrix of the Kora” Music News With a big African Heart, virtuoso kora player Seckou Keita and his international quintet are not to be confined to any one genre, dipping comfortably in ...
Singer and virtuoso kora player Wassa Kouyaté will be accompanied by Balla Kouyaté, a virtuoso player of the balafon (West African xylophone). “Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata ...