Balleke Sissoko And Derek Gripper Soas Concert Series 48 By Mike Skelton
Make no mistake about what is happening here — this is a meeting between instruments, not traditions.
Most certainly, the dialogue between Malian Ballaké Sissoko’s kora and South African 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 —…
