Aly Keïta is testament to the adage of an apple not falling far from a tree. Brought up in a family of griot musicians, the award-winning Ivorian grand master of the balafon could not resist adopting ...

First new artist release through Chrysalis Global, an imprint of Chrysalis Records Produced by an A-list team: Dudu Sarr, Lucy Durán + Pape Armand Boye “Three outstanding Malian and Guinean griots….

With the continuing flood of current releases in creative improvised music, it’s sometimes easy to overlook artists who rarely receive or accept the opportunity to record. Mallet-maestro Khan Jamal is ...

Côte d’Ivoire’s Aly Keïta returns to South Africa for the Moshito Music Conference. Audiences are in for a treat At the 2009 annual Bushfire Music Festival in Swaziland I witnessed one of the finest ...

Uncommonly worldly, Trio Ivoire is also blessedly free of 'world music' clichés. On Across The Oceans German pianist Hans Lüdemann, West African balafon virtuoso Aly Keita & Dutch/Indian/South ...

Cerys handpicks an eclectic Sunday soundtrack and West African balafon player, Kimi Djabaté, performs live in session. Kimi Djabaté is from a village in Guinea-Bissau. Coming from a family of ...

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual In the 2022 film Alice, the titular heroine – a slave ...

Considered to be among the greatest balafon players in Mali, Mr. Kouyate plays two instruments at the same time, achieving a chromatic scale which allows him to play any genre of music in any key. The ...