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  Anchored by the kora and vocals of griot kora player and singer Diali Keba Cissokho, Kaira Ba has created a singular cross-cultural statement with their 2018 album Routes. This album builds a bridge across the Atlantic, connecting worlds thousands of miles apart but intimately bound by a shared history. Over the course of two years, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba recorded Routes in North Carolina, USA, and in M’bour, Senegal. The collaboration grew to include 35 musicians, each of whom listened deeply to the others in this musical conversation. Sounds of Senegal intertwine with those of the U.S. South -- sabar and soruba orchestras, tama (talking drum), balafon, and fula flute weave through gospel organ and pedal steel, sax, trumpet, trombone and string quartet – musicians calling back and forth across continents, drawing each other close though an ocean away.
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  released June 29, 2018
  
  Produced by Jonathan Henderson and Jason Richmond
  
  Kaira Ba is:
  Diali Keba Cissokho - Kora, Lead vocals
  John Westmoreland - Guitar, Charango
  Jonathan Henderson - Bass, Percussion
  Austin McCall - Drum Kit, Calabash, Percussion
  Will Ridenour - Djembe, Sabar, Dunduns, Congas, Percussion
  
  Featuring,
  Senegalese Artists:
  Ablaye Daffé - Soruba, Sabar
  Ablaye Cissokho - Soruba, Sabar
  Mamadou Cissokho - Soruba, Sabar, Guitar, Vocals
  Abdou Ndiaye - Soruba, Sabar
  Bayemor Mbaye - Soruba, Sabar
  Yaye Boye - Vocals
  Yande - Backing Vocals
  Ndai Mbaye - Backing Vocals
  Sunkare Kouyate - Balafon
  Baba Galle Kante - Fula Flute
  Ibrahima Sene - Tama
  
  U.S. Artists:
  Eric Heywood - Pedal Steel Guitar
  Tony Williamson - Mandolin
  Shana Tucker - Vocals
  Tamisha Waden - Vocals
  Alan Thompson - Alto Saxophone
  Jennifer Curtis - 1st Violin, Solo Violin
  Elizabeth Phelps - 2nd Violin
  Suzanne Rousso - Viola
  Paula Peroutka - Cello
  Beverly Botsford - Shekere and Sound Colors
  Chuckey Robinson - Organ
  Lynn Grissett - Trumpet
  Andy Kleindienst - Trombone
  Jim Henderson - Baritone Saxophone
  Sidya Cissokho - Sabar
  
  Executive Producer, Jonathan Henderson
  Recorded and Mixed by Jason Richmond
  Recorded at Auberge Africa Thiossane (Saly, Senegal) and Fidelitorium Recordings, Sound Pure Studios, and Moeser Auditorium (North Carolina, USA)
  Mastering by Dave McNair
  
  Cover art by Saba Taj
  Interior design and layout by Cherie Westmoreland
  Liner notes by Diali Cissokho, Will Ridenour, and Jonathan Henderson
  
  All photographs by Jonathan Henderson except booklet cover by Bruce dePyssler and Assistant Engineer at Fidelitorium Recordings: Andrew McClenney
  
  All songs written, arranged, and recorded by Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, except “Xarit” by Youssoupha Cissokho, and “Waajur” by Mamadou Cissokho (from “Night in M’bour”)
  
  © Twelve | Eight Records 2018
  
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