The consistently excellent Verucchio Festival takes place every year in picturesque open air venues in a small hilltop town near Rimini in Emilia Romagna. The varied line up this year with two concerts a night includes Blonde Redhead, Seth Lakeman, José Gonsalez and an electronic night with BJ Neilsen & Hildur Gudnadottir.
The must see for me this year was Toumani Diabaté whose virtuoso kora playing I’ve long admired. Continue reading
Toumani Diabaté’s new album, ‘The Mandé Variations’ ,is a masterpiece.
It is both meditative yet the same time spiritually uplifting.
In eight instrumentals he demonstrates his mastery of kora playing to produce a record that transcends cultural or geographical boundaries. Diabate describes it as combining the past and present to take the music into the future.
World circuit have posted a short but illuminating video on You Tube in which he talks about the album and demonstrates how he achieves this amazing sound.
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