Most bands that visit NPR headquarters for our Tiny Desk Concerts need to adjust their setup and sound to accommodate the setting's limitations. At the very least, the musicians have to cram into a ...
The history of the West African kora, a 21-string harp, goes back several hundred years — back to the days when Mande griots, hereditary musicians who tell the history of their people, played for the ...
Chamber Music consists of ten duets for kora and cello, a few of them with minimal accompaniment. Sissoko’s kora leads, with Segal’s cello treading round it. Segal experiments with different ...
A meeting of instruments, not traditions. The dialogue between Ballaké Sissoko’s kora and Derek Gripper’s guitar is a summit of two master musicians at the peak of their craft. Despite coming from ...
When Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Ségal perform at the North Beach Bandshell this Sunday, they’ll do so under the cover of a shadow of nativism and xenophobia that has engulfed the United States. The ...
His relationship with the French label No Format has been immensely fruitful, not least the two now classic albums with the French cellist Vincent Ségal – Chamber Music (2009) and Musique de Nuit ...
Ballaké Sissoko is one of Mali's most prominent musicians A world-renowned kora player says that his custom-made instrument was ruined after going through TSA at New York’s John F. Kennedy ...
Expanding on the adage that less is more, Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko and renowned French cellist Vincent Segal have taken an ascetic minimalistic approach on Musique De Nuit. This melding of ...
Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko alleges his "cherished, custom-made kora" was "completely destroyed" on a flight this week "without any justification." The kora is a traditional West African ...
The kora of renowned Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko was broken by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, the instrumentalist claims. The West African musician was traveling to Paris from ...
Malian musician Ballake Sissoko, a renowned player of the kora, has accused US customs of breaking his 21-string instrument “without any justification”. Sissoko’s team said in a statement on Tuesday ...
Expanding on the adage that less is more, Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko and renowned French cellist Vincent Segal have taken an ascetic minimalistic approach on Musique De Nuit. This melding of ...
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