BOUBACAR SAMAKE

Boubacar Samake, son of the late Malian music legend Sibiri Samake, carries forward the deep spiritual traditionof Mali’s donso (hunter) music — a lineage of ritual melodies and rhythms played for courage, healing, and connection to the natural world. A virtuoso of the ngoni, the plucked lute at the heart of donso music, Boubacar is also one half of electro-afro innovators Siraba. He performs in this new trio with Louis Campbell (electric guitar, fromalt-folk duo Spafford Campbell) and master percussionistSeydou Kienou from Burkina Faso, whose djembe, calabash and karagnan bring a visceral, ancient pulse.Together they reframe this ancestral sound in a hypnotic, blues-tinged dialogue that bridges West African traditionand modern experimentation.