"The shame of it is this is only and EP ... Trio Da Kali was put together to work on a project with the Kronos Quartet. Their David Harrington described the result as "one of the most beautiful collaborations" of their 40-year career. Hawa Kasse Mady Diabaté has been hailed as one of the finest griot voices and no possible argument there. Heart, strength, delicacy: she has it. Lassane Diabaté, who played in Toumani Diabaté's Assymetric Orchestra, promotes the balafon from second rank to lead instrument with supple accuracy and attack. With ngoni player Mamadou Kouyaté, son of the renowned Bassekou, inventing a stream of magical riff and transition, the counterpoints they generate are rich and effective. This is a special kind of group, both refined and potent".
