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Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba

“As a band leader, Diali Cissokho has a commanding voice, and excellent kora skills; he is clearly a great composer with a visionary approach to the integration of other genres with his Senegalese roots. [Routes] is up there with the groundbreaking recordings of Thione Seck, Baaba Maal and Youssou N’Dour. ”

— SONGLINES

Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba

Renowned griot kora player and vocalist Diali Keba Cissokho is the inheritor of a centuries-old Mande musical culture.

Together, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba sustains one of West Africa’s most expressive legacies with their own energetic interpretations.

Take a look:

Short Documentary: The Great Peace

Music Videos: Teeriyaa | Mbolo | SalsaXalel

Live: Xarit | Alla L’a Ke

www.KairaBaMusic.com

When Cissokho immigrated from Senegal to North Carolina, he initiated a collaboration that he hoped might bridge the Atlantic, connecting worlds thousands of miles apart but bound by a shared history. Over the past eight years, Kaira Ba has done just that, producing three full-length albums, touring extensively in the United States, and voyaging twice as a band to Senegal to collaborate with Diali’s extended family and community. In 2014, the band was nominated for the prestigious continent-wide All Africa Music Award (AFRIMA) in the category “Best African Group” for their album The Great Peace. In 2018 the band released Routes, its most ambitious album to date. Recorded in both North Carolina and Senegal, the album was met with critical acclaim. Songlines hailed the album as “up there with the groundbreaking recordings of Thione Seck, Baaba Maal and Youssou N'Dour."

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Routes

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Anchored by the kora and vocals of griot kora player and singer Diali Keba Cissokho, Kaira Ba has created a singular cross-cultural statement with their 2018 album Routes. This album builds a bridge across the Atlantic, Read more

Anchored by the kora and vocals of griot kora player and singer Diali Keba Cissokho, Kaira Ba has created a singular cross-cultural statement with their 2018 album Routes. This album builds a bridge across the Atlantic, connecting worlds thousands of miles apart but intimately bound by a shared history. Over the course of two years, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba recorded Routes in North Carolina, USA, and in M’bour, Senegal. The collaboration grew to include 35 musicians, each of whom listened deeply to the others in this musical conversation. Sounds of Senegal intertwine with those of the U.S. South -- sabar and soruba orchestras, tama (talking drum), balafon, and fula flute weave through gospel organ and pedal steel, sax, trumpet, trombone and string quartet -- musicians calling back and forth across continents, drawing each other close though an ocean away.

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The Great Peace

The Great Peace

Kaira Ba

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“Kaira Ba” (pronounced “KAI rah bah”) is a Mandinka phrase meaning “the great peace” or “peace and love.” The Mandinka belong to West Africa's largest ethnolinguistic group, the Mande. The flagship instrument of Diali Read more
“Kaira Ba” (pronounced “KAI rah bah”) is a Mandinka phrase meaning “the great peace” or “peace and love.” The Mandinka belong to West Africa's largest ethno­linguistic group, the Mande. The flagship instrument of Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba is the kora, a 21­ or 22­stringed bridge­harp from West Africa. The strings of the kora are made of fishing line and they resonate through a large, halved gourd stretched with a cowhide. Traditionally, the kora is played by Mandinka Jalis and Mande Jelis (“griots” in French), members of a special caste of society that work as musicians and oral historians. They are walking libraries of information and history; artisans of speech and sound. Diali Keba Cissokho was born into a griot family who can trace their musical roots back over many generations. Diali can name for you nineteen grandfathers who played kora and sang. His own father began teaching him the family instrument at the tender age of five.
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Resonance

Resonance

Kaira Ba

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