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Kora In The Garden: Costa Rica

by Daniel Berkman

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"Kora In The Garden: Costa Rica" was live-streamed from Tamarindo Costa Rica on April 9, 2021.
It is the first album featuring my 23-stringed chromatic electric kora made by Kumbengo Koras.

All the music was live and improvised.

My trip to CR in April was for a concert event in La Senda featuring myself and headliner East Forest for an evening of live music, ceremony, beautiful people and delicious cuisine, all in the midst of a cactus labyrinth and lanterns strewn throughout the land. It was a magical evening.

Still buzzing from that transformative night, I shared some of the good vibes in two Kora In The Garden broadcasts on Facebook. The first was from the patio of my room at the Naxos on April 7 and the second was the recording you hear before you, recorded at Casa Libelula.

There were so many locations at Casa Libelula that stood out to me for a livestream, but the one I chose that morning was so odd and somehow perfect. It was a closed off garden with a concrete platform in the middle surrounded by a trench and shrouded by a wooden canopy.

The platform also had an alligator there to give me inspiration!
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released August 6, 2021

Live improvised electric 23-stringed chromatic kora and battery powered electronic devices by: Daniel Berkman
Mixed & Mastered by: Daniel Berkman
Cover Photography and Art by: Daniel Berkman

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Daniel Berkman San Francisco, California

Daniel Berkman is a Bay Area electronic musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, looper and innovator of the Kora (a 21-stringed harp-lute from West Africa) and it's modern counterpart, the Gravikord.
Daniel composes for dance, film, instrumental, vocal and also has recordings under his electronic music moniker Colfax.
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