Né So Digital HD FLAC Album (96kHz/24bit) exclusive

Né So Digital HD FLAC Album (96kHz/24bit) exclusiveRokia Traor's N So (Home), produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman), comprises 10 original songs plus a cover of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and features guest performances by John Paul Jones and Devendra Banhart, along with Burkinabe drummer Mose Ouattara, Ivorian bassist Matthieu Nguessan, and Malian ngoni player Mamah Diabat. NPR calls N So a "gorgeous new album" from a "fantastically gifted" artist. The Times says: "Traor has made

bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Joey Baron—was originally designed as live accompaniment to pioneering film comedian Keaton’s silent film

which hailed the album as “complex and dangerously catchy

The two suites

innate gift of almost supernatural harmonizing

The album takes its name from William Egglestons iconic Mississippi photograph on its cover

Grammy and Academy Award winner Gustavo Santaolalla’s beloved and critically acclaimed 1998 album Ronrocois newly remastered

expands from minimalist austerity to more full-bodied passages and back again

But in her quiet way

produced and mixed by John Dieterich

unadorned beauty of a natural

performed here by American pianist Ruth Laredo

among others