New Music for Kora
The ancient harp/lute of the griots (the traditional storyteller/historian/musicians) of West Africa is now a thoroughly contemporary and global instrument, used by rockers like Björk, in film scores,...
View ArticleWorld Music Sampler
For this New Sounds, listen to an hour of recent recordings of world music, including Guinea’s electric kora player Ba Cissoko and Tibetan émigré singer Soname. There’s also music from Gnawledge, a...
View ArticleSofter Sides of World Music
For this New Sounds, sample from Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal's "Chamber Music," a lovely, refined album for kora and cello. Also, a Senegalese/Belgian collaboration from Malick Pathe Sow &...
View ArticleVincent Segal & Ballake Sissoko
“Chamber Music,” the quietly elegant record from BallakéSissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello,...
View ArticleAcoustic World Music
For this New Sounds, sample from Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal's "Chamber Music," a lovely, intimate album for kora and cello. Also, a Senegalese/Belgian collaboration from Malick Pathe Sow &...
View ArticleVincent Segal & Ballake Sissoko
“Chamber Music,” the quietly elegant record from BallakéSissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello,...
View ArticleAcoustic World Music
For this New Sounds, sample from Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal's "Chamber Music," a lovely, intimate album for kora and cello. Also, a Senegalese/Belgian collaboration from Malick Pathe Sow &...
View ArticleAfrican Crossover Music
For this New Sounds, listen to musicians from Belgium, Switzerland, the U.K., and Italy working together with musicians living in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Hear the late...
View ArticleToumani Diabate
The kora is a 21 string instrument played all over West Africa. And Toumani Diabate is considered the greatest kora player in the world. He tells Kurt how growing up he loved the music in spaghetti...
View ArticleVincent Segal & Ballake Sissoko
“Chamber Music,” the quietly elegant record from BallakéSissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello,...
View ArticleSquirreling Away the New Sounds
It's the latest installment of the chronicles of withholding-from-John-Schaefer from the New Sounds Staff. With so much time since the last taunting, that means more things have been able to pile up on...
View ArticleAfrican Crossover Music
For this New Sounds, listen to musicians from Belgium, Switzerland, the U.K., and Italy working together with musicians living in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Hear the late...
View ArticleAfrican Crossover Music
For this New Sounds, listen to musicians from Belgium, Switzerland, the U.K., and Italy working together with musicians living in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Hear the late...
View ArticleDerek Gripper Plays Kora Music on Guitar
South African guitar virtuoso Derek Gripper plays music originally meant for the 21 stringed lute-harp, the kora, on his 6-string Segovia-styled guitar in the studio. Listen to unbelievable...
View ArticleGig Alert: Derek Gripper at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on 11/12
Gig Alert: Derek Gripper at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on Sat., Nov. 12Tickets: $39-$46, 8:45PMGuitarist Derek Gripper is from South Africa, but much of the music he plays is from West Africa, from Mali...
View ArticleGig Alert: Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal at French Institute Alliance...
Gig Alert: Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal at French Institute/Alliance FrancaiseTickets: $30-35, Show at 8PM."Chamber music" is a term used in classical music to describe an intimate form of music...
View Article#3989: Water-Based Music
There’s water-based music by Philip Glass, in a solo piano version, in a dance score for the Brazilian group Uakti, and in an orchestral arrangement. Hear works about water by Afro-Cuban pianist &...
View ArticleGig Alert: Derek Gripper at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on 11/12
Gig Alert: Derek Gripper at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on Sat., Nov. 12Tickets: $39-$46, 8:45PMGuitarist Derek Gripper is from South Africa, but much of the music he plays is from West Africa, from Mali...
View ArticleGig Alert: Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal at French Institute Alliance...
Gig Alert: Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal at French Institute/Alliance FrancaiseTickets: $30-35, Show at 8PM."Chamber music" is a term used in classical music to describe an intimate form of music...
View ArticleOmar Sosa and Seckou Keita at Roulette
Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita at RouletteThursday, March 21 at 8 pmTickets: $26-$30.The Afro-Cuban pianist Omar Sosa has developed a distinctive musical voice that incorporates mainstream jazz, his own...
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