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...Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate Faya (Localization)...
...Fusion riffs followed, jazz rippled over taut grooves and then subsided behind the harp-like tones of Sekou Kouyate’s kora. Tunes switched genre, tempo and mood constantly....
...The Cuban pianist goes in search of African roots, joined by Sekou Kouyate on kora and Baba Sissoko on percussion. “Bibisa” sets kora against ngoni, with Fatoumata Diawara singing over the top....
...The recent vogue has been for purist sola records; defying this, as ever, Guinea’s Ba Cissoko pushes the experimental envelope, his own acoustic instrument vying with Sekou Kouyate’s electric, heavily processed...
...He was joined, on stage as on record, by the Malian percussionist Baba Sissoko, switching effortlessly from ngoni to talking drum, and by the Guinean kora player Sekou Kouyaté, in his day job the id to Ba...
...In theory, too, Mr Kouyate should have sweeping powers. On his ability to exert them, Guinea’s fate may now depend....
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