Sublimely beautiful idylls and dreamlike weavings of intercontinental musical traditions form Kôrôlén, a six-piece suite of compositions performed by kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté and the London ...

Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ranging ...

He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society. By Giovanni Russonello Toumani Diabaté, a ...

Toumani Diabaté, who has died aged 58 after a short illness, was one of the finest African musicians of the past few decades; known as “the king of the kora”, he revelled in fusing his native music ...

The classical music orchestra produces a very specific sound that has attracted musicians from the world of pop and jazz. It offers a familiar and potentially versatile texture as well as a badge of ...

It was only a matter of time before Kurt Vile and J Mascis got around to working on an album together. Vile was a Dinosaur Jr. fan growing up in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, in the 1990s, and his loose, ...