THE CLASSIC ELEGANCE OF THE KRONOS QUARTET AND THE POWER OF THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF TRIO DA KALI A MAGNIFICENT MEETING OF TWO WORLDS! Take a trio composed of the best 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 violins, viola, and cello with Lassana Diabaté's balafon, Mamadou Kouyaté's ngoni, and the powerful voice of Hawa 'Kassé Mady' Diabaté creates a nearly transcendental style. The new album by Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet, Ladilikan, could become a benchmark among intercultural musical collaborations. Both groups describe this experience as one of the most interesting of their careers. Indeed, David Harrington, founder of the Kronos Quartet in 1973, calls this album "one of the most beautiful that Kronos has recorded in 40 years." And when Lassana Diabaté first heard Trio Da Kali's music played by two violins, a viola, and a cello, he said: "This is going to be the best collaboration of my entire life."
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