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One Night on Earth: Music from the Str...
1.6M streams
1,630,960
Mali in Oak
1.5M streams
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A Year of Swimming
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Saturday Morning in Boston
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Libraries on Fire
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Sleep Songs For My Daughter
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The Sound of Water
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Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
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Folon
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Biography
It took Derek Gripper untold hours of painstaking work to transcribe note-for-note the complex compositions of Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté and find a way of playing them on six-string guitar. The results appeared on his ninth album, “One Night on Earth.” The album created an unprecedented meeting point between the written tradition of Western classical music and the oral tradition of the West African griots...www.derekgripper.com