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London Times, CD Review >>
3 out of 5 stars
Since Bassekou Kouyate brought the ngoni/banjo family tree into the spotlight, there has been no shortage of musicians investigating the way in which West African instruments and rhythms became the corner stones for 20th-century music in North America. Here, a jazz-loving Canadian banjo maestro (Stone) and a Quebec-based Malian kora player (Sissoko) push the exploration a little farther, with fiddle-led Celtic/Appalachian reels such as June Apple or Chinquapin Hunting sitting comfortably alongside cross-cultural blues (Ninki Nanka) and reappraisals of Malian standards (Tunya).
By David Hutcheon 01/17/09
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