When you bring together one of the
kora’s most versatile players and ready collaborators, a
world-class symphony riding high off a collaboration with another
varied if unexpected talent, and one of the most famous
composer-arrangers in the composing-and-arranging game today, what do
you expect is going to
happen? If you guessed “they’ll make a delicate work of
nigh-unsurpassable beauty” you would be correct.
Check
out “Elyne Road,”
the latest track from Toumani Diabaté and the London Symphony
Orchestra’s upcoming album, with arrangements by Nico Mulhy:
If
only our medical professionals weren’t so busy, we could find out
if this release really does lower blood pressure as I suspect it
does.
Regardless, the
full-dosage of relaxation, the album Kôrôlen, is out on April
23 via World Circuit Records and
can preordered here.