Ballake Sissoko
Or inner peace
There was a time when we wanted to write about Ballaké Sissoko, ambassador par excellence of Mandinka and Malian music.
There is another time when. Ballaké Himself saying that the dialogue with other cultures was what filled him the most, it was on the "transcultural" Ballaké that it seemed obvious to put the Light.
From meeting to meeting, in this uninterrupted conversation that Royaumont has had with him since 2004, today it is the Ballaké, a musician of peace, who holds all our attention and all our emotion.
Yes, the sound of the kora. Liquid, soft, silky, seems to be the gush of a fountain of youth.
Yes. the pentatonic and heptatonic scales of Mandinka music, relax us and often plunge us into immediate meditation, from the Liszt of the Water Games to the Villa d'Este to Debussy or to Chinese music, from Persian music to Mandinka music .
Here we need a music therapist who explains to us how The harmonic spectrum of these scales of sound transforms us into meditators, and sends us back to our inner being.
But it is Ballaké Sissoko's musical personality that completes the creation of this peace felt by all those who listen to Him. To listen to Ballaké is to receive a shower of lustral water, and to start believing again...