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.