Kora player Ballaké Sissoko of Mali and South African guitarist Derek Gripper
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Make no mistake about what is happening here — this is a meeting between instruments, not traditions.
There are two bulls in the pen. And it is equally certain that these maestros emerge from quite different and distant musical worlds — Sissoko’s kora tradition and lineage traverse the once powerful empire known as Kaabu in Gambia, southern Senegal and Guinea Bissau. But we are not hearing these traditions in dialogue.
His success in doing so, and his unique mastery of jeli music on the instrument, represent a fascinating new direction in the guitar’s modern history, both in Africa and globally.
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