Jazz Articles about Ellika Frisell /Solo Cissokho / Rafael Sida

Ellika Frisell /Solo Cissokho / Rafael Sida: Now

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 23, 2013

Swedish folk violinist Ellika Frisell and singer and kora player Solo Cissokho, a griot from Senegal, have been playing together for over fifteen years now, finding common ground between the solitary Scandinavian fiddle and West-African kora playing. The two released two albums as a duo, Tretkat Takissaba and Abaraka Tack (Xource, 2002 and 2005) and received the BBC World Music Award. Now adds to this celebrated duo drummer and percussionist Rafael Sida, originally from Mexico, a close collaborator Ale Möler, ...