The chitchat at Cafe Nine on Wednesday might have been getting a little intense, but a flourish of notes from the 21-string kora of Madou Sidiki Diabaté was enough to silence them. One by one the ...

Two albums blending Malian and Cuban elements released in the space of one month might feel repetitive, but this takes a very different approach to the folky AfroCubism. It pits the gleaming ...