First new artist release through Chrysalis Global, an imprint of Chrysalis Records Produced by an A-list team: Dudu Sarr, Lucy Durán + Pape Armand Boye “Three outstanding Malian and Guinean griots….

Music often captures what words cannot. The collections of sounds coalesce to form ideas and phrases that mean something to those who listen to them. When you introduce new types of sounds and ...

Uncommonly worldly, Trio Ivoire is also blessedly free of 'world music' clichés. On Across The Oceans German pianist Hans Lüdemann, West African balafon virtuoso Aly Keita & Dutch/Indian/South ...

Considered to be among the greatest balafon players in Mali, Mr. Kouyate plays two instruments at the same time, achieving a chromatic scale which allows him to play any genre of music in any key. The ...

As a boy in Mali, Balla Kouyaté remembers playing the balafon to motivate workers on a farm. He was so small, he had to stand on a large rock to be seen by the crowd. An opportunity like that would ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...