{"product_id":"various-hritage-cd-0075597891553","title":"Various - Héritage  [CD]","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style='color: black; font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;'\u003e\u003cspan style='color: black; font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;'\u003eThis item will be released on Friday 22nd January. It will be shipped to arrive on or around the release date.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEtoile Audio and Nonesuch Records release Héritage, the last album from Malian kora master Toumani Diabaté, playing in a quartet with his sons, Sidiki, Balla, and Ahmed.  This was the first album the Grammy-winning Toumani made with his three sons, who are all accomplished musicians and kora players, before he passed away in July 2024 after a short illness.  Earlier that year, he gathered his sons to create his dream project: making music together in an ensemble of koras. Héritage was recorded in the Diabatés’ Bamako family home.  Toumani’s eldest son Sidiki explained, “He wanted to present his family, his heritage, and the work he’s done to the world.  His idea was for it to be like a choir, a choir of koras; well organized, well played, very gentle, and very spiritual.” After Toumani's passing, his daughter Djelika sent the Héritage recordings to Nick Gold, former head of World Circuit Records and founder of Etoile Audio, at Toumani's request.  The two had a longstanding friendship and working relationship, including Gold's involvement in producing Toumani’s two Grammy-winning duet albums with Ali Farka Touré. As Toumani’s longtime friend and former producer Lucy Durán says in her liner note, “Toumani is from a long line of celebrated kora [21-stringed West African harp] players and was raised in the Bamako home that was gifted to his father Sidiki Sr. by the Malian state for his exceptional contribution to the arts.”  She continues, “The quartet belongs to the west African lineage of hereditary musicians – djelis (also known more widely by the term griots) – of the Mande people from across West Africa.  All three sons began learning the kora from a very early age.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56489614049665,"sku":"3550197","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/various-heritage-cd.jpg?v=1794254808","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/various-hritage-cd-0075597891553","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}