Avec leur album, « Sissoko & Sissoko » (chez l’excellent label belge Homerecords), les cousins Ballaké Sissoko et Baba Sissoko, le premier à la kora et le second au n’goni, à la voix et aux percussions, nous offrent un disque magnifique de cette musique mandingue douce et essentielle qui apaise l’âme.[…] Ballaké Sissoko & Baba […]
Sissoko & Sissoko – Ballaké Sissoko & Baba Sissoko
FR This album, Sissoko & Sissoko, is a story of two cousins Ballake Sissoko and Baba Sissoko, who shared and connected their lives through music! Everything started at the beginning of the 80s, when the teenagers met in the National Instrumental Ensemble of Mali. I replaced my retired father and Ballake replaced his departed father. […]
Official Release “Sissoko & Sissoko” – Ballaké Sissoko & Baba Sissoko – EN
“Two Sissokos? No need to try arithmetic, mental calculations, addition or multiplication: the Sissokos form a whole, one piece, a sum of knowledge, practice, tradition, innovation, creativity rooted in a dynastic heritage.[…]”
Official Release “Sissoko & Sissoko” – Ballaké Sissoko & Baba Sissoko – FR
“Sissoko au carré ! Deux fois Sissoko ? Pas la peine d’essayer l’arithmétique, le calcul mental, l’addition ou la multiplication : les Sissoko forment un tout, un ensemble, une somme de savoir, de pratique, de tradition, d’innovation, de créativité enracinée […]”
TOP OF THE WORLD – DECEMBER 2019 – Songlines Magazine
Back in the day, Djelimady Sissoko and Madou Sissoko were stalwarts of the National Orchestra of Mali […]
2019-09-13 TOP 10 WORLD MUSIC ALBUMS, SEPTEMBER EDITION
Featuring a song from each of the Top 10 new world music albums. Plus other global sounds, new and old. 2019-09-13 Top 10 World Music Albums, September edition
ILIA – Review dans Le Soir (Thierry Coljon)
Ilia est le nouveau projet de Géraldine Cozier, la chanteuse liégeoise qui, dans une autre vie, […]
ilia sur radio 4910
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concertzender.nl – the night world music
With the second album entitled Bach in Baghdad, Nawaris led their boat along the river of imagination: – Let’s go to the children’s alley, laugh, cry, dance, discover, invent with them! Let us be J.S. Introducing Bach as a young boy, taken with a sudden desire to travel, a crossing from the Balkans to Baghdad! […]
concertzender.nl – the night world music
For this first album Joyeuse Ville, Louise O’sman works together with two talented arrangers for a delicate arrangement that was written for five musicians. Expressive music with accents of classical music in which you hear the temperations, fluctuations of the tempo and rhythmic sessions. Both soft and intimate, including being polite, the universe of Louise […]