Anchored by the kora and vocals of griot kora player and singer Diali Keba Cissokho, Kaira Ba has created a singular cross-cultural statement with their 2018 album Routes. This album builds a bridge across the Atlantic, connecting worlds thousands of miles apart but intimately bound by a shared history. Over the course of two years, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba recorded Routes in North Carolina, USA, and in M?bour, Senegal. The collaboration grew to include 35 musicians, each of whom listened deeply to the others in this musical conversation. Sounds of Senegal intertwine with those of the U.S. South -- sabar and soruba orchestras, tama (talking drum), balafon, and fula flute weave through gospel organ and pedal steel, sax, trumpet, trombone and string quartet ? musicians calling back and forth across continents, drawing each other close though an ocean away.
Tracks:
1. Alla L'a Ke 06:51
2. Badima 04:11
3. Salsa Xalel 03:58
4. Saya 04:35
5. Ma Cherie 04:08
6. Baayi Leen 04:20
7. Ndoli 04:49
8. Story Song 03:37
9. Xarit 03:16
10. Naamusoo 06:05
11. Night in M'Bour 06:04
