CROSSINGS - MANDING PILGRIMAGES Concert recorded on Saturday, October 2, 2021 Pierre-Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 20th season of Constantinople Follow us on / Join us on: Facebook: / ensembleconstantinople Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/constantino... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/arti... Website: https://constantinople.ca/ KIYA TABASSIAN, SÉTAR & VOICE ABLAYE CISSOKO, KORA & VOICE PATRICK GRAHAM, PERCUSSION Throughout time, in all places, the Word of the world has been embodied in the earthly Word of the bard, the troubadour or the griot. These artisan poets, as much ferrymen as peacemakers, are the link with the forces of nature, the unspeakable divine, the memory of the ancients. It falls to them to maintain the daily home of the collective soul. Eternal migratory birds, Kiya Tabassian, master of the setar and pioneer of memories, and Ablaye Cissoko, griot from Saint-Louis, Senegal and master of the kora, have been crisscrossing the world’s stages together for ten years. Together with percussion virtuoso Patrick Graham, these freethinkers and travelers are making the world their garden. Everywhere, from time immemorial, the Word has been embodied by the bard, the troubadour, the griot. These wordsmiths, at once messengers and peacemakers, are the links with the forces of nature, the inexpressible divine, the memory of the ancients. It falls to them to maintain the realm of the collective soul. Nowadays, these freethinkers and travelers are making the world their garden… like Kiya Tabassian, the virtuoso of Persian setar and Ablaye Cissoko, griot from Saint-Louis, Senegal, both eternally migrating birds. This meeting between Ablaye and Constantinople, between strings and vocals, goes back in time to evoke the beauty of being. It is a joint passage through the common sites of the imagination, like a long breath before the inexorable march of the world and time. PROGRAM 00:00:00 - REVERIES - Kiya Tabassian 00:05:42 - MARYAMA - Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian; poem by Hafez (1325-1390) 00:12:24 - ESTUARY - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:18:23 - DENKILO - Ablaye Cissoko 00:23:41 - TOWARDS ISFAHAN - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:27:43 - AHOUYE VAHSHI - Kiya Tabassian; poem by Hafez 00:32:47 - CROSSINGS - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:35:53 - SIRIFO - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:39:36 - DEPARTURES - Kiya Tabassian; poem by Amir Khosro Dehlavi (1253-1325) / Ablaye Cissoko 00:47:18 - FISH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, Kiya Tabassian, Ablaye Cissoko 00:53:04 - PERCUSSION SOLO, Patrick Graham 00:58:37 - SOUTOURO, Ablaye Cissoko 01:06:03 - KAILEN - Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian *** Constantinople en concert / Our next concerts: https://linktr.ee/constantinople