[TR24][OF] Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper - Ballake Sissoko & Derek Gripper - 2024 (world fusion, kora & guitar, african folk)

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Баллаке Сиссоко и Дерек Гриппер
Западноафриканский корист Баллаке Сиссоко и южноафриканский гитарист Дерек Гриппер – дуэт влюбленных в африканский фолк исполнителей, не боящихся при этом экспериментировать с джазом, неоклассикой, поп- и рок-музыкой.
Баллаке Джелимусса Сиссоко – виртуоз коры, ныне один из самых востребованных малийских композиторов. Он с детства был окружён музыкой и музыкантами. Этому способствовал семейный статус Баллаке, который приходится сыном користу Джелимади Сиссоко, потомственному гриоту (или как сами музыканты называют себя – джели, а женщины-гриоты – джелимусо). Под неусыпным отцовским оком Баллаке сызмальства играл на коре, 21-струнной западно-африканской арфе, которую по праву считают королевой африканских инструментов.
Кроме именитого отца, в роду Баллаке немало знатных сказителей и музыкантов. Он, к примеру, приходится двоюродным братом другому гриоту и мастеру игры на коре – Тумани Диабате. Их совместная работа 1997-го года New Ancient Strings имела небывалый международный резонанс и стала одним из ключевых альбомов, в новом ключе раскрывающих возможности коры. Сиссоко много экспериментирует и, просто-таки, обожает различные коллаборации. Кроме Тумани Диабате, Баллаке посчастливилось работать с такими известными исполнителями как Тадж Махал, Рокиа Траоре, Людовико Эйнауди, Росс Дэйли, Кассе Мади Диабате, Салиф Кейта, Пирс Фачини, Омар Соса, Трио Чемирани и рядом других музыкантов.
В свою очередь, Дерек Гриппер (родом из Кейптауна, ЮАР) начал освоение азов музыки в возрасте шести лет по классу скрипки, позже увлекшись гитарой. После тринадцатилетнего изучения основ классической музыки Дерек в поисках музыкального вдохновения поехал в Индию, где он осваивал южноиндийский стиль Карнатик. Вернувшись домой, он продолжил эксперименты на гитаре, пытаясь найти новые направления и техники игры для своего инструмента. Через призму музыкальных поисков Стива Райха, увлекавшегося в определенный период африканским минимализмом, Дерек открыл для себя музыкальное наследие африканских гриотов. Результатом увлечений стал выходы альбомов One Night on Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali (2012) и Libraries on Fire (2016) с музыкой выдающихся африканских исполнителей – Тумани Диабате, Баллаке Сиссоко, Али Фарка Туре. Сегодня на счету Дерека Гриппера около двадцати студийных альбомов с музыкой разных жанров – от африканской этники и джаза до экспериментальной и классической музыки, в т.ч. с переложением для гитары произведений Арво Пярта.
https://www.last.fm/ru/music/Ballaké+Sissoko+&+Derek+Gripper/+wiki

Ballake Sissoko
Ballaké Sissoko (born 1968) is a Malian player of the kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal, and is a member of the group 3MA with Driss El Maloumi and Rajery.
Ballaké's father, Djelimady Sissoko, was a notable musician from the Gambia in his own right who moved to Mali and was funded by the government to be part of the national orchestra. Sissoko started playing music at a young age, as most born into the jeli or griot caste do. In 1981, when he was 13, Sissoko's father died, and he took his father's place within the Ensemble Instrumental National du Mali. He also performed with several prominent female singers before coming to fame through his duet with Toumani Diabaté in 1999. In 2000, he formed the trio Mande Tabolo with an n'goni player and a balafon player.
His 2005 album, Tomora, features Toumani Diabaté on kora, singers Alboulkadri Barry and Rokia Traoré and Fanga Diawara, violin soloist of the Mali National Instrumental Ensemble.
His record Chamber Music released in October 2009 was the result of a collaboration with Vincent Ségal, a classical cellist known for his work with Bumcello, and was released by French label No Format! and the U.S. label Six Degrees Records.
He released a solo album, At Peace, in 2013. Ségal produced the album and plays on several tracks.
As of 2024, since 2022 Sissoko has been collaborating in duo concerts with Derek Gripper of South Africa, who has transcribed a lot of kora music to play on his own classical guitar, with an album to be released circa April 2024.
Discography
1998 - Kora Music from Mali – Kora Solo Album (bibiafrica records)
1999 - New Ancient Strings (with Toumani Diabaté) (Hannibal-Ryko / Harmonia Mundi)
2000 - Déli (Label Bleu/Indigo)
2003 - Diario Mali (with Ludovico Einaudi) (Label Ponderosa)
2005 - Tomora (Label Bleu/Indigo)
2008 - 3MA (with Driss El Maloumi, Rajery) (Contre-Jour)
2009 - Chamber Music (with Vincent Segal) (No Format!/Six Degrees)
2011 - Humbling Tides (with Stranded Horse) (Talitres Records / No Format!)
2013 - At Peace (No Format!)
2017 - Anarouz (with Driss El Maloumi, Rajery) (Mad Minute Music)
2015 - Musique de Nuit (with Vincent Segal) (No Format!)
2019 - Sissoko & Sissoko (with Baba Sissoko) (homerecords)
2021 - Nocturne (with David Walters, Vincent Segal, Roger Raspail) (Heavenly Sweetness)
2021 - Djourou (No Format!)
2021 - A Touma (No Format!)
2023 - Les Égarés (with Vincent Segal, Emile Parisien, Vincent Peirani) (ACT, No Format!)
2024 - Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper (Platoon)
2024 - Ballaké Sissoko & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch (Ornithology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballaké_Sissoko
Derek Gripper
Derek Gripper is one of South Africa’s leading guitarists whose love of the kora set him transcribing and recording some of its greatest works, changing the face of classical guitar...
When Gripper released “One Night on Earth,” his first album of kora translations, classical guitar legend John Williams said he thought it was “absolutely impossible until I heard Derek Gripper do it,” while kora maestro Toumani Diabaté asked for confirmation that it was indeed just one person playing. Both invited Derek to collaborate with them: Derek performed with Williams in London’s Shakespeare’s Globe and King’s Place, and with Diabaté and his Symmetric Orchestra at the Acoustik Festival Bamako, Mali. His 2016 Carnegie Hall debut paired him with Mali’s Trio da Kali, and the UK’s Songlines honoured him with best album in Africa and the Middle East for his 2016 album “Libraries on Fire.”
Since these two recordings put kora/guitar translations on the map, his recent recordings “A Year of Swimming” (2020), “Billy Goes to Durban,” (2021) and “Sleep Songs for My Daughter” (2022), have incorporated elements of his kora explorations in original compositions and improvisations, captured on tape in the field and in studio, while his Bach recordings have shown that African music has a lot to teach us about recapturing the natural simplicity of early European music.
Touring globally from his home in Cape Town, Gripper is collaborating with Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko on a new duo project, and recording for the record label Platoon.
https://www.derekgripper.com/about

Info for 'Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper'
A meeting between instruments, not traditions. Most certainly, the dialogue between Ballaké Sissoko’s kora and Derek Gripper’s guitar is a summit between two master musicians who are operating with control and freedom at the highest peaks of their art. There are two bulls in the pen. And it is equally certain that these maestros emerge from quite different and distant musical worlds – Sissoko’s kora tradition and lineage traverse the once powerful empire known as Kaabu: located in Gambia, southern Senegal, and Guinea Bissau. Gripper’s stems from the European classical guitar. But we are not hearing these traditions in dialogue: our protagonists meet on the sonic groundings of the kora, traditionally 21-string instrument of the griots, resonant vessel of the sacred and profane, sound carrier of history and wisdom. The kraal is pitched on Sissoko’s terrain. And through two decades of commitment and study, it is to this terrain that Gripper brings the modern European guitar to meet its cousin
The two men do not share a spoken language, but if it is true that music speaks universally, then they were already involved in profound dialogue long before they met for the series of London concerts which yielded this recording session – a session which matches deep communion with sparkling improvisation, which pushes a living tradition into brand new sonic spaces, and opens a live and direct channel of communication between kora and guitar. In the complex web of themes and variations spun by Sissoko’s twenty-two strings and Gripper’s six, a new African string theory is elaborated.
“Musically we tested each other,” says Sissoko, explaining that the most magical aspect of their
encounters are spontaneity. “We have the mastery of our instruments, the technique and a good ear. Derek is very curious, that’s very important.” “He’s just such a good listener,” says Gripper about Sissoko. “It’s not what he plays, it’s how he plays it. He’s an amazing interpreter, the prime master of timbre.”
https://newcape.bandcamp.com/album/ballak-sissoko-and-derek-gripper

Ballaké Sissoko, kora
Derek Gripper, guitar
releases May 10, 2024
Recording by Taylor Pollock at Platoon Studios, London
Mixed, edited and produced by Derek Gripper
Mastered by Murray Anderson at Milestone Studios, Cape Town
Produced for vinyl by Chris Albertyn and Matt Temple at Matsuli Music
Mastered for vinyl and lacquers cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London
Released by Platoon and vinyl by Matsuli Music