Toumani & Sidiki

Toumani & Sidiki
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Artist: Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
Genre: World Music
Label: World Circuit

Toumani Diabaté, the most famous exponent of that majestic west African instrument, the kora, can trace his griot musical ancestry back 71 generations. Now he brings in the 72nd – his son Sidiki (who, in another life, is beatmaster in a popular Malian hip-hop duo) for a set of instrumental duets recorded in London with the expert World Circuit team in full attendance. After little or no rehearsal, the two koras begin a courtly dance, circling, embellishing, leaving space for glistening solo runs. As the improvisations deepen, the strings ripple and glide, roll, tumble and swing in a glorious interplay that entrances the head and gladdens the heart. It's another masterclass from Toumani; the duo's National Concert Hall gig in June will be one to savour. worldcircuit.co.uk
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