Derek Gripper's music is where tradition meets transformation. Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Gripper has spent his career transcending the boundaries of classical guitar by breathing new life ...

His duets with French cellist Vincent Segal first appeared in 2009, on the French No Format label; Chamber Music was hailed as a classic of world fusion, and their follow-up, 2015’s Musique de Nuit, ...

Music: Badjourou, (interview), Kalata Diata - Asa Branca, (interview), Bitile Ballake Sissoko (kora) Fassery Diabate (balafon) Moussa Diabate (guitar) Oumar Niang (guitar) Recorded at Broadcasting ...

Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal's Chamber Music is truthfully titled, but the longtime friends 'chamber music' is novel. At night, in Mali, kora-playing griot & French cellist discarded any notions of ...

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 ...

Kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko is less famous, worldwide, than his neighbour. But he is just as great a player of that harp/lute & as musically imaginative. Tomora contains a sublime duet with Toumani ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The untimely death of Toumani Diabaté last summer makes his sometime collaborator (on the groundbreaking album ...

Outrage poured in from around the world when news broke that a musician’s priceless instrument was destroyed by Transportation Security Administration officials in the United States. Ballaké Sissoko ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko alleges his "cherished, custom-made kora" was "completely destroyed" on a flight this week ...

Last February, Sissoko’s historic instrument was disassembled on a flight home to Paris. Bolstered by a new kora, his latest album revives their borderless journey In the Malian language Bamanankan, ...