Recent Additions : Toumani and Sidiki

I have been enjoying Toumani Diabte's music since first being introduced to it when I picked up his second collaboration with Ali Farke Toure in 2010.  That was a magical pairing with the two of them creating almost orchestral sounds with their traditional African instruments. It was also released shortly after Ali Farka Toure had died so there was always sadness that as I had come late to the music and that there would be no more.

Now we have father and son playing together creating an album of kora duets that adds to the history of great traditional African music.  

Toumani and Sidiki is an album of acoustic instrumentals that continues the family tradition.  Sidiki, named after his grandfather who was reputedly at the time the greatest living kora player when he was alive, has taken a break from his normal hip hop band in Mali to join his father in a 70 generation tradition.

Here is a sample from this year's Glastonbury Festival.