Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet in Concert Together this Spring, Debut New Music Video Today
By: Macon Prickett Feb. 28, 2018
Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet will play a series of rare concerts this spring in one of the most eagerly anticipated musical events of 2018. Following their ground-breaking debut album Ladilikan-hailed as World Music album of the year-audiences will finally get a chance to witness this "exquisite, spellbinding collaboration" (The Guardian) live.
The music video for "God Shall Wipe All Tears Away" is out today in conjunction with this announcement. Watch here.
April 27-SF JAZZ-San Francisco, CA / USA
May 11-Jazz Sous Les Pommiers Festival-Coutances / France - Premiere performance
May 18-The Barbican-London / UK - Premiere performance
May 20-Brighton Festival?Brighton / UK
June 17-Holland Festival-Amsterdam / Netherlands - Premiere performance
The collaboration is a "sublime meeting of two superb chamber groups" (Songlines) from AFRICA and America. San Francisco's Kronos Quartet have been the world's most pioneering string quartet for the last 40 years where Mali's Trio Da Kali are a new super-group, uniting three outstanding musicians from some of the country's most celebrated musical families.
Their joint album Ladilikan was described as "solid gold wonderment" (fRoots), "unlike anything you may have heard before" (The Economist), "magnificent" (MOJO) and "a mesmerizing marriage of tradition and rule-breaking" (NPR), featuring in End of Year lists in the Guardian, Rough Trade, Songlines, NPR, Afropop, UNCUT, fRoots and more.
"God Shall Wipe All Tears Away"
David Harrington, artistic director of the Kronos Quartet, had long wanted to record a version of "God Shall Wipe All Tears Away" recorded by the great American gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson. When he first heard Trio Da Kali's Hawa Kasse Mady sing, Mahalia's song sprang into his thoughts.
Hawa did not know of Mahalia Jackson nor had she ever heard any gospel music. The English lyrics were translated into Bambara, Mali's main language, and the quartet DIVIDED the organ harmonies between the four string instruments, bowing in long sustained notes without vibrato, in order to emulate the sound of the organ.
In addition, Trio Da Kali will be embarking on a short run of solo performances across NORTH AMERICA in March and April.
March 29-Motorco Music Hall-Durham, NC
March 30-Savannah Music Festival-Savannah, GA
March 31-Savannah Music Festival-Savannah, GA
April 6-UVM Lane Series-Burlington, VT
April 7-Common Fence Music-Portsmouth, RI
April 8-Café Nine-New Haven, CT
April 10-Villa Victoria Center for the Arts-Boston, MA
April 13-Proctors-Schenectady, NY
April 14-Mass MOCA-North Adams, MA
April 15-Festival of Mali, Brooklyn Bowl-New York, NY
April 21-FOOTMAD Concert Series-Charleston, WV
April 22-Elk Creek Café-Millheim, PA
April 26-Palms Playhouse-Winters, CA
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