Ablaye Cissoko and Cyrille Brotto

After meeting for the first time three years ago, which resulted in an album and more than a hundred concerts around the world, Ablaye Cissoko and Cyrille Brotto return to this two-man story. The Senegalese musician is one of the great masters of the kora (the so-called “African harp”), while the Frenchman is an accomplished performer on the accordion. In Djiyo, the duo’s second album, they deepen the crossover between the Mandinka and Occitan traditions in a music of poetic beauty and careful attention to one another’s worlds. A musical dialogue that is also an example of admiration between distinct cultures.

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