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Ellika and Solo
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$16.99
Ellika Frissell, one of Sweden’s best fiddlers meets Solo Cissokho, a master of the cora from Senegal. Together they make colorful music, where the polska meets the rhythmic flow of the west African harp. These are all duets with no extra musicians, full of lively counter point and interesting, sometimes playful exchanges between two intuitive and inventive musicians.
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See also Ellika's Tokpolska (Crazy Polska)
| "If another album comes along this year which fuses two acoustic instruments from theoretically gulfs-apart traditions in such a wonderfully successful, natural, joyful way, then it's going to be a vintage twelvemonth indeed. Norway-resident Solo Cissokho (who's incidentally the uncle of sometimes UK-resident kora smartypants Sekou Keita) comes from the same Casamance kora tradition as Kausu Kuyateh - all punchy bass strings, snappy riffs and danceable as hell. Taking that as a foundation, Frisell weaves polska fiddle, schottisches and waltzes in and around and under, and both improvise seven shades of shit out of it all - but never losing sight of the core music or letting virtuosity get the better of them..." - Ian Anderson, fROOTS |
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