Toumani Diabaté - Kaira

Toumani Diabaté recorded this in London in 1987, still in his early twenties, and it was promoted as the first album of solo kora. On his own he plays bass lines, melody and ornamentation at once across the instrument's 21 strings, so it can sound like more than one player. Choose it for pure strings with no voice, and a clear picture of what the kora can do.