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Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté: 'It's like an entire music industry in one family'


The Guardian - 23-May-2014

Hailing from a musical dynasty that stretches back 77 generations, Toumani Diabaté's exquisite kora playing has gone global. Now he is joined on a new album by his son Sidiki Take the bone-dry shell of a large gourd, a straight length of rosewood and a piece of cow or antelope hide, combine them with 200 years of craftsmanship and 21 strings, and you have the kora: subSaharan Africa's most sophisticated...


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