Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper: “We’re happy to disrupt” | Songlines
Friday, July 19, 2024

Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper: “We’re happy to disrupt”

By Emma Rycroft

Kora music gets a radical reworking with Ballaké Sissoko welcoming South African guitarist Derek Gripper into the tradition

DGBS By Eyüp Berk Kılıç 

Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper (photo: Eyüp Berk Kılıç)

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