Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The untimely death of Toumani Diabat\u00e9 last summer makes his sometime collaborator (on the groundbreaking album New Ancient Strings) Ballak\u00e9 Sissoko undisputedly Mali\u2019s finest living kora player. Diabat\u00e9 had fallen largely silent in the years before he died, apart from a glorious one-take collaborative record with the Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor. Sissoko has in the meantime been releasing a series of albums in a wide range of formats: separate collaborations with the cellist Vincent S\u00e9gal, the flautist Nicole Mitchell and the guitarist Derek Gripper; accompanied by Moroccan oud and Malagasy valiha in the trio 3MA; and several solo albums of unaccompanied kora.His 2021 album Djourou featured a variety of guests including Gambian multi-instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh, Malian singer-songwriter Salif Keita and French singer Camille. It also featured the British-Italian singer Piers Faccini, a fellow staple at the French label No Format!. The two have played together on and off over the years, but Our Calling is their first full album as a duo.Its central theme is migration \u2014 of seeds, birds and people. On \u201cI Wanted To Belong\u201d Sissoko whips up the kora like a fresh offshore breeze as Faccini sings about wanting to feel as if winds sailing against a cliff were \u201ccalling out a home \/ South the way they\u2019re blown\u201d. There is a desert sway to \u201cMournful Moon\u201d, with kora, guitar and Malik Ziad\u2019s guembri lurching up against each other. \u201cMournful moon,\u201d sings Facccini with a hint of blues, \u201cwith her silver rays \/ stealing time \/ to burn the day.\u201d Right in the middle, Sissoko breaks free from the song\u2019s repetitive patterns to unleash a silvered solo.At the end of \u201cGo Where Your Eyes\u201d, guitar arabesques interlocking with fast, sweet kora runs slow down into contemplative space. \u201cDrawing shadows \u2019till they\u2019re done,\u201d Faccini sings, stretching that last word out into a set of wordless phrases that echo like a call to prayer.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Our Calling\u2019 is released by No Format!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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