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Trio Da Kali And Kronos Quartet: A Happy Marriage Of Tradition And Rule-Breaking

An unlikely musical collaboration, Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet shatter boundaries of culture, genre, faith and ethnicity.
Trio da Kali and Kronos Quartet's album, <em>Ladilikan</em>, is available now.

You might think traditional West African music and Western classical music would share little common ground. But , the album from Mali's Trio Da Kali and San Francisco's is a welcome landmark in the history of unlikely

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