Nouvelles Cordes Anciennes (NeAuthor: Toumani Diabat's Symmetric Orchestra Format: CD Release Date: 17 03 2008 Details: Amazon. ca Back in the early 1970s, a recording by kora masters Sidiki Diabate and Djelimadi Sissoko called Cordes Anciennes first brought this rich acoustic music of Mali to the world. More than 20 years later, their sons, the now world famous Toumani Diabate and the junior Ballake Sissoko, have come together to pay tribute to their fathers with 1999's New