“Beyond Black” is the title given to the meeting of two great musicians from two continents: Africa and America. Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko meets his colleague from across the Atlantic, jazz flautist Nicole Mitchell. Their meeting was set up to allow the emergence of a new, hybrid musical...

Ballaké Sissoko is a Malian player of the Kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal, and is a member of the group 3MA with Driss El Maloumi and Rajery.

Ballaké's father, Djelimady Sissoko, was a notable musician from the Gambia in his own right who moved to Mali and was funded by th...

The Interzone is not on any map. It is a micro-nation in North Africa, imagined by William Burroughs in The Naked Meal.
Created in 2002 in Damascus, Interzone is a guitar/oud duo with Khaled Aljaramani, professor in Syria at the Damascus Conservatory of Music and the Homs Institute of Music, refu...

Around the affect of joy, Jour de Fête (Celebration Day) aims at a popular celebration of which the music is the sound translation. The correspondences between music and wine are a research which fascinates Magic Malik.

Magic Malik (real name Malik Mezzadri) was born in Côte d'Ivoire and grew up...