JOE DRISCOLL & SEKOU KOUYATE

When the Jimi Hendrix of the kora meets a one-man band of modern times, a fertile exchange occurs instantly to bring the North-South dialogue into a new musical era. With the stunning Guinean Sekou Kouyate, who cut his teeth with Ba Cissoko and New Yorker multi-instrumentalist Joe Driscoll from rap, reggae, rock and folk background, the duo dynamites Afro fusion to create a singular language where the Mandingo harp-lute dons electric distortion and where African polyrhythms embrace hip hop in a perfect match. An unclassifiable alchemy brought to boil by the sacred fire of the stage…