When West Africans were taken to the Americas, they left behind the Kora—a 21-string harp-lute whose intricate playing had shaped centuries of West African music. The musical imagination that had lived in the kora had to find a new home: the guitar.

On Kulanjan, Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabaté bring the journey full circle, reuniting the guitar with the kora.

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Named Album of the Year by Folk Roots magazine. 

Personally recommended by President Barack Obama in a Borders survey. 

Celebrated for tracing the roots of American blues back to West Africa, a theme Taj Mahal has long championed.