The history of the West African kora, a 21-string harp, goes back several hundred years — back to the days when Mande griots, hereditary musicians who tell the history of their people, played for the ...

Ten fingers for twenty-one strings, and magic takes place, surely, calmly. Ballaké Sissoko enlaces us in his suave and crystalline sonority and his kora, magnified by his talent as a melodist and an ...

I begin this edition of All Songs Considered with a powerful true story of a Japanese big band formed in a Wyoming internment camp during World War II. The artist singing this story is Julian Saporiti ...

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 ...

The Malian and French musicians switch their kora and cello from lead to rhythm in a show of stunning musical intuition They begin as they plan to continue, with an exquisite, hypnotic late-night ...

Rhythm Planet Host Tom Schnabel joins us to preview an upcoming show featuring Malian kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko with French cellist Vincent Segal. (10am) Rhythm Planet Host Tom Schnabel joins us ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Twenty-five years ago, Ballaké Sissoko and his cousin Toumani Diabaté recorded New Ancient Strings, duets ...

Chamber Music consists of ten duets for kora and cello, a few of them with minimal accompaniment. Sissoko’s kora leads, with Segal’s cello treading round it. Segal experiments with different ...

Malian musician Ballake Sissoko, a renowned player of the kora, has accused US customs of breaking his 21-string instrument “without any justification”. Sissoko’s team said in a statement on Tuesday ...

Expanding on the adage that less is more, Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko and renowned French cellist Vincent Segal have taken an ascetic minimalistic approach on Musique De Nuit. This melding of ...