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RNZ News
2 days ago
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- RNZ News
Worlds of Music 27 July, 2025
Paul Ubana Jones performing live in the Auckland studio for NZ Live. 1 July 2016. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Ballaké Sissoko "Ma-Ma" FC Ballaké Sissoko Chamber Music No Format Dudley Benson hounds of love Kate Bush The Awakening Live Series Vol. 1 Adnan Joubran Signs of Madness (feat. Jorge Pardo) Adnan Joubran Borders Behind Harmonia Mundi Agnes Obel Riverside Agnes Obel Philharmonics PIAS Andy McKee Art Of Motion Andy McKee Dreamcatcher CandyRat Records Orchestre Laye Thiam Sanga Té Orchestre Laye Thiam Senegal 70 (Sonic Gems from the 70s) Analog Africa Adam Del Monte Neshemá (Tarantas) Adam Del Monte Mi Camino Flamenco . . . journey To a New World Tresona Multi Media Los Lobos La Pistola y el Corazón Los Lobos La Pistola y el Corazón Slash/Warner Music Paul Ubana Jones Mountain Song P U Jones Paul Ubana Jones Pagan Al Andalus Ensemble, Tarik Banzi & Julia Banzi Afghano Tarik Banzi & Julia Banzi Rough Guide to the Best Arabic Music You've Never Heard World Music Network
RNZ News
29-06-2025
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- RNZ News
Worlds of Music 29 June, 2025
Sona Jobarteh Photo: supplied/WOMAD This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Rabih Abou-Khalil On A bus Rabih Abou-Khalil Yara Nick Drake Three Hours Nick Drake 5 Leaves Left Island Rercords Rodrigo y Gabriela Hora Zero Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko A l'écoute du moro Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko Jardins migrateurs IndiaLucia IndiaLucia IndiaLucia IndiaLucia Trio Da Kali Kronos Quartet Keno Bo Trio Da Kali Ladilikan Ane Brun Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That He Is Made of Truth - Single Ane Brun Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That He Is Made of Truth - Single Derek Gripper Kaira (Peace) Derek Gripper One Night on Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali Sona Jobarteh Jarabi -live @ Womad Sona Jobarteh Live Recording RNZ Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal Chamber Music Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal Chamber Music
The Guardian
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko: Our Calling review – voice and kora duo's gorgeous songs of longing
Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko and British Italian songwriter Piers Faccini are both inveterate collaborators (and labelmates) who have previously guested on each other's records. Here they deliver a full-blown album as a duo, taking the migration of nightingales as their inspiration and following one's calling as their theme. It's a gentle, captivating work, its poetic songs soaked in nature imagery and beautifully married to Sissoko's intricate, dazzling playing. Also present here and there is cellist Vincent Ségal, with further guests on the lute-like ngoni and guembri weaving subtly through the backing. Faccini's high, reedy vocals are not the sturdiest, but he's in robust form here. The songs are packed with longing, whether the pull of another country, a return home or a lost love. One Half of a Dream is impatient to go, blown along by Sissoko's gusting kora, while Mournful Moon and North and South are steeped in desert blues. A different mood comes with Ninna Nanna, an Italian folk song that's the only piece not in English, its staccato lyrics leavened by Ségal's cello. Borne on the Wind is an ode to the wind under bird's wing that doubles as a paean to lost love – 'the light of her song long gone'. Gorgeous stuff.
