Héritage [CD]

Héritage is the final album from Malian kora master Toumani Diabaté and the only one he made with all three of his sons, Sidiki, Balla and Ahmed. Early in 2024, months before he died that July, Toumani gathered them in the family home in Bamako to realize a long-held dream: a quartet of koras playing together. Sidiki describes it as "a choir of koras", gentle, carefully arranged and deeply spiritual, and a portrait of the family's centuries-old griot tradition.

Toumani won Grammys for his duets with Ali Farka Touré and worked with Björk, Damon Albarn, Taj Mahal and Roswell Rudd; his sons carry that legacy into griot music, afropop and hip-hop. Released by Etoile Audio and Nonesuch.

Track listing

• 1. Deni
• 2. Tounga
• 3. Ali Farka
• 4. Nankoman
• 5. Love
• 6. Balla Fama
• 7. Famille
• 8. Allahou
• 9. Mande
• 10. Hope

Other editions: Héritage [LP].