All Songs composed and performed by John Hughes. Played on a 22 Stringed Kora built by John Hughes. Recorded live in Berkeley, California in the Downtown Berkeley Bart Station during the winter / spring of 2015. Mastered by Corin Nelsen of SynchroSonic Productions, Oxford, MI. Heartfelt thanks to all those who gave me a place to lay my head while I was in California: Dan Zemelman, Sue Stuart & David Early, Cody Strauss & Nick Grossenbacher, Sylvia Brallier, Ari Kriegsman & Ruby Pratt, Dave Carrier & Sarah Hart, Valentine Lasserre, BangHan Kim & Ken Robin, Andy Lundberg & Miriam Wolodarski, Ka Zu Shearman and Rob Schwartz. John Hughes is an innovative kora player, percussionist and vocalist whose style ranges from elegant and stately classical West African harp music to jazzy, hypnotic grooves that cross cultural boundaries and fuse disparate cultural influences.  Playing ancient traditional instruments (many of which he builds himself),...