BataMbira is a contemporary synthesis of folkloric musics from Zimbabwe and Cuba. Mbira (thumb piano) and bata (drums) blend unusually and vivaciously.
Yaya Diallo of Mali and Montreal plays djembe and balafon. "This is not Yaya playing, but the ancestors playing through him." --Mali elders. Fula (Peul) flute (tambin) also heard here.