“Seventeen years after drummer Will Calhoun began recording with some of Mali’s most celebrated musicians, the Mali Project is finally nearing release. A recent performance at the Sultan Room in Brooklyn offered a glimpse of the expansive collaboration, bringing together utterly unique grooves and melodies fusing traditional Malian and jazz idioms as never heard before… In the wake of that concert, Afropop’s Banning Eyre interviewed both Cheikh and Will Calhoun to get the history of this remarkable collaboration.”
Will’s Mali Project Interview for Afropop Worldwide
