Nomadic Normandy traveller Yann Tambour returns to Les Tombées de la Nuit with the brilliant exponent of Senegalese Mandingo music, Boubacar Cissokho, for a new album of Stranded Horse’s dreamy, melancholy folklore, The warmth you deserve (2025). The duo once again transcends African rhythms, Anglo-Saxon folk and the song format, in these fascinating, stateless and unique sonic objects, acoustic lacework of sensitive strings where koras and guitars weave a crystalline and comforting web.
Nomadic Normandy traveller Yann Tambour returns to Les Tombées de la Nuit with the brilliant exponent of Senegalese Mandingo music, Boubacar Cissokho, for a new album of Stranded Horse’s dreamy, melancholy folklore, The warmth you deserve (2025). The duo once again transcends African rhythms, Anglo-Saxon folk and the song format, in these fascinating, stateless and unique sonic objects, acoustic lacework of sensitive strings where koras and guitars weave a crystalline and comforting web.
BIOGRAPHY
> YANN TAMBOUR (France)
Yann Tambour began his career in 2001 under the name Encre, mixing string instruments, voice, piano and sampling. He discovered the kora and radically changed his songwriting to create the travelling folk opening that would characterise Stranded Horse. After Thee, stranded horse (2005) and Churning Strides (2007), he revisited his first album with Ballake Sissoko (Thee, Stranded Horse And Ballake Sissoko, 2008). After Humbling Tides (2011), Transmission (2013), Luxe (2016) and Grand Rodeo (2022), he made The warmth you deserve (2025) in duet with Boubacar Cissokho.
> BOUBACAR CISSOKHO (Senegal)
Originally from Marsassoum in Casamance, Boubacar Cissokho was born a griot to Niama Konte and Lankandia Cissokho, a great kora player and conductor of the Orchestre du Théâtre National Daniel-Sorano in Dakar. But Boubacar is also the young cousin of kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko. He spent seven years in Mali studying with him and also rubbed shoulders with the great Toumani Diabaté. After other experiences in Burkina Faso and Guinea, he returned to Senegal and in 2012 began a collaboration with Yann Tambour and Stranded Horse. Boubacar is one of the great exponents of Senegalese Mandinka music.
