A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
From: John Diliberto
Length: 00:03:30
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Piece Description
An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration. Cissoko plays the kora, an African instrument that gently seduces you with its sound. Made from a large calabash gourd, cut in half, it's covered in cow hide, it has a long poll protruding from its body that's hung with 21 strings in 2 courses. It's the traditional instrument of the African Griot or storyteller.
Volker Goetze matches Cissoko in emotional nuance. He plays much of the music with a mute on his trumpet and flugelhorn which takes his brass instrument into the dynamic range of the Kora. The two musicians sound like they grew up together in the Senegal plains as they converse on their instruments.
It's part of Echo Location: Soundings for New Music, the weekly digest from Echoes host and Peabody Award winning producer John Diliberto, exploring the latest in modern music with quick hitting interviews, music and commentary. Each edition of Echo Location features a beautifully edited music blend, that's combined with John's thoughtful insights and artists's comments to make a sound-rich journey for listeners. Each episode can stand on its own or be scheduled as a weekly or occasional series.
Broadcast History
WXPN, Philadelphia and WITF, Harrisburg
Transcript
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The African kora is an instrument that gently seduces you with its sound. Made from a large calabash gourd, cut in half, it's
covered in cow hide, it has a long poll protruding from it's body that's hung with 21 strings in 2 courses. It's the traditional instrument of the African Griot or Story Teller.
Musik bite
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This kora is being played by Ablaye Cissoko. He's from Senegal and he's in a family of griots that goes back centuries.
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VG: The kora is an instrumetn of the griots and it's a heritage thats trasmitted from the father to the sun. His grand grand grand grand father, probably in the 1300s were fortunate to build this kora and develope this instrumetn so he's in a long line of people who developed this instrument
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THAT'S VOLKER GOETZE. He'S not just translating for Ablaye Cissoko. He plays with him on a CD called Sira. Goetze is from Germany whe...
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Timing and Cues
Incue: [sonar sound] This is an Echo Location: Soundings for New Music.
Outcue: I’m John Diliberto and this has been an Echo Location.
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