It is 15 years since I last recorded a solo kora album. Why has it been so long since my first? Who can say, but there have been many contributing factors. My first solo kora album, Still Moment. was originally released as Malian Royal Court Music and through it I wanted to establish a new aesthetic for the music and the instrument. In truth the music I was playing on this first recording was a contemporary face of African Classical Music but at the time there was no context or musical landscape to place it within. I had to create the genre and the idiom whilst working within it, all in one move. In Malian Royal Court Music I tried to create a balance between my contemporary compositions with several pieces from the old repertoire of the Kora but ultimately I was not satisfied with these renditions. These pieces are timeless and eternal, in much the same way as the music of Bach, and I did not feel fully ready to do them justice. This is ...