Artist Lounge: Ba Cissoko
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Apparently that was once Ba Cissoko's take on things, but his father, also a kora player, being a wise man supported his son's aspirations, but suggested that he might learn a few songs on the kora anyway just for kicks seeing it was after all his birthright, and under his uncle's tutelage, Ba Cissoko came around to a musician's life after all.
Following Cody B's lead this is more a fusion thang, but I defintely hear funk in the bass line.
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Given his reputation in Europe and his native Guinea, as well as his pedigree, the debut from kora player Ba Cissoko and his group arrives with plenty to live up to. For once, though, all the hype is more than justified. There's plenty of dance music on hand here; all of it from the Manding tradition, but given a healthy, and sometimes daring edge that makes it contemporary without being deliberately modern. Cissoko himself plays acoustic kora, and his skill is quite breat... MORE
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A friend recently wrote me a glowing message about a kora-playing poet she had just heard which sent me scurrying just to hear what this (by her accounts) luminous instrument sounded like. This evening I am weighing my kora options on emusic which include Ba Cissoko's first album Sabolan which from the clips seems a bit more energetic than his second Electric Griot Land which apparently introduced him to the United States.As for the song, I honestly think I prefer the cove... MORE
