Ladilikan

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THE CLASSIC ELEGANCE OF KRONOS QUARTET AND THE POWER OF THE ANCESTRAL TRADITION OF TRIO DA KALILA MAGNIFICENT MEETING OF TWO WORLDS!Take a trio made up of the finest griots of traditional Malian music and the most revolutionary string quartet in Western music, and you get a musical collaboration as enriching as it is original. The meeting of the violins, viola and cello with Lassana Diabaté’s balafon, Mamadou Kouyaté’s ngoni and the powerful voice of Hawa 'Kassé Mady' Diabaté creates an almost transcendental style. The new album by Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet, Ladilikan, could become a benchmark among intercultural musical collaborations. The two groups describe this experience as one of the most interesting of their careers. Indeed, David Harrington, founder of Kronos Quartet in 1973, describes this album as “one of the finest Kronos has recorded in 40 years.” And when Lassana Diabaté first heard the music of Trio Da Kali played by two violins, a viola and a cello, he said: “This is going to be the best collaboration of my entire life.”