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SUMMARY:Ballaké Sissoko and Piers Faccini
LOCATION:The Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA 94704
DESCRIPTION:worldclassmusic.live and The Freight proudly present Ballake Si
 ssoko and Piers Faccini www.ballakesissoko.com Thursday 9/10 Saturday 9/12
  doors 7pm / showtime 8pm The new album is available on CD and vinyl at ti
 cket check-out! 'gentle\, captivating work.... poetic songs soaked in natu
 re imagery and beautifully married to Sissoko’s intricate\, dazzling pla
 ying' - The Guardian Two decades after their first ever collaboration\, Br
 itish-Italian folk songwriter\, Piers Faccini\, and Malian kora virtuoso\,
  Ballaké Sissoko\, return with a mesmerizing album. This new and captivat
 ing musical dialogue — between a prodigious instrumentalist at the heigh
 t of his powers and a gifted songwriter and wordsmith — deftly bridges c
 ontinents and traditions\, inventing new song forms. The seeds of Our Call
 ing were first planted when Sissoko and Faccini met at Label Bleu in the e
 arly 2000s. Their friendship grew as they linked and explored uncharted pa
 ths between Manding traditions and folksong forms. With its ten finely cra
 fted tracks\, Our Calling is a sonic and narrative praise song for migrati
 on in all its manifestations: seeds borne by the winds\; Nightingales flyi
 ng between West Africa and Europe at the turn of the seasons\; humans\, ac
 ross the centuries\, and along trade routes\, sharing musical practices an
 d rhythms. The album’s originality is that it feels deeply Malian at its
  core\, while also being seamlessly infused with an essence of folk songwr
 iting\; the two elements blending without one ever overshadowing the other
 . The duo’s ambition when they began imagining the album was clear: the 
 musical language begins and ends with Manding traditions and modes. The so
 ngs had that creative brief. Their melodies\, although sung in English\, a
 re constructed and stepped along Manding lines. The originality of Sissoko
  and Faccini’s dialogue is best exemplified with the song “If Nothing 
 is Real” — a song that succeeds in finding a home away from home\, bot
 h on the African and European continents. It is a t\n\nhttps://tickets.wor
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