a tidbit on a kora + the most magicalest person in the world

Joanna Newsom will tell you she loves the Senegalese polyrhythms for the kora, she learned them in art-composer’s school before she dropped out. I am essentially unfamiliar with kora music, but today I’ve been listening to Toumani Diabete & Ballake Sissoko’s New Ancient Strings–:37 into the first track dudes start high-end, magic treble counterplucking and it’s just devastating–and actually I think “Salaman” IS a Joanna Newsom song, or vice verse, but I cannot remember her song names enough to know which one. You know, the one about the crone and the dancing seahorse in the Redwoods. Sprite joke, faerie joke, hippie joke, etc. I am just noticing how much of her music (aside from the unleashed woodsprite vocalizing and scribing, of course) is peeled from the Toumani Diabete (prince of the kora, fyi) stee.
tonight we jessica sasha and i glued together a wooden bridge with the best curly-headed kids, terrific kids that give me pause enough to step outside my messy brain and messy office and imagine that maybe i will have some, once i clean up my clutter in like, 2043.
the smaller of the two sang us a song in his pajamas while hopping around the kitchen island like a bunny:
“YOU MIGHT BE THE MOST MAGICALEST PERSON IN THE WORLD
I DON’T KNOW IF YOU ARE, BUT YOU MIGHT BE!”