#Live session of Ballaké Sissoko for the release of the album "Djourou"
Ballaké Sissoko at RFI.
© Laurence Aloir / RFI
By: Laurence Aloir
7 mins
Ballaké Sissoko presents his new album
Djourou
which is released on the No Format label!
(Replay)
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The translation of the interview into French-Bambara is provided by
Kpénahi Traoré.
On this album, the kora master invites
Oxmo Puccino, Camille, Vincent Segal, Patrick Messina, Sona Jobarteh
and
Feu!
Chatterton.
Ballake Sissoko.
© No Format
Official biography of
Ballaké Sissoko
"
Djourou is the rope, the one that connects me to others,"
said
Ballaké Sissoko
simply
.
We could not express more clearly the title and the spirit of this new disc, where the music of the Malian unfolds in all its dimensions: intimate and universal, singular and plural, alone or in conversation with artists who are fell in love.
"
Ballaké Sissoko is a part of the history of Malian music, it is a powerful silence, it is sacred music",
testifies the rapper
Oxmo Puccino
, invited on the album of the one he considers like an uncle,
Ballaké Sissoko
.
Ballake Sissoko.
© Yanis Baybaud
Eldest son suddenly become the breadwinner, Ballaké takes the place of his father,
Djelimady Sissoko
, within the
Ensemble instrumental du Mali.
As you have to know how to listen before speaking,
Ballaké
listens before playing.
The young man soon seeks to confront his art with other musical universes, and embarks on a solo career. Fascinated by the Indian sitar or the flamenco guitar whose techniques he tries to transpose, he wants his kora to explore new lands. Then he discovered the qanun, the oud, but also the cello which can play both the bolon (harp-bass lute) and the sokou (unicord violin) from Mali. It is this fascination that will lead him much later to approach
Vincent Segal
to start a musical conversation with him from which 2 albums will be born:
Chamber Music
and
Musiques de Nuit
(No Format!)
Because if Ballaké likes deep one-on-one meditations with his kora (as on the
Déli
album
, published in 1997), he is always eager to meet people, the korafola
Toumani Diabaté
, the pianist
Ludovico Einaudi
or the trio
3Ma
with the valiha of
Rajery
and the oud of
Driss el Maloumi
.
Ballaké Sissoko and Sona Jobarteh.
© Julien Borel
For Djourou, the guests are all connected to Ballaké's kora by an invisible thread, a rope,
djourou.
It is a return to childhood for
Oxmo Puccino,
a fascination for
Camille
who weaves a poetic reverie with her words
. Vincent Segal
and
Nicolas Messina
embark
Berlioz
on the banks of the Niger river. As for the voice of
Piers Faccini,
it gives Kadidja, a ballad sung in Bambara, new and moving colors. When
Ballaké Sissoko
invites
Sona Jobarteh
, a talented Koraist from Gambia, he reconnects with the common ancestors, and continues to forge the bond that unites the generations.
Ballaké even embarked on a crazy adventure with
Arthur Teboul
, singer of
Fire!
Chatterton
...
Songs played by Ballaké Sissoko (sound Mathias Taylor)
- Demba Kunda
Ballaké Sissoko
Live RFI
- Djourou
Cd Ballaké Feat.
Sona Jobarteh (extract from the
Djourou
2021
album
)
see the clip
- Kadidja
Ballaké Feat.
Piers Faccini (from the
Djourou
2021
album
)
- Mande Tabolo
Ballaké Sissoko
Live RFI.
Playli
st Ballaké Sissoko
- Masterclass
Ravi Shankar Paris 2008
- Sanou Djala
Babani Koné (
Sanou Djala
1998 Syllart)
- Fantastic Symphony
(extract) Berlioz
- Game on the Fantastic Symphony
Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal and Nicolas Messina (extract from the
Djourou
2021
album
)
- Koulandjan
Kasse Mady Diabate (Kela Tradition 1990).
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