Sekou Kouyate is one of Africa's most exhilarating kora players, best known for his work with his Guinean compatriot Ba Cissoko, but he is clearly trying to expand his audience. A music festival in Marseilles commissioned him to work with Joe Driscoll, a New Yorker based in Britain, whose style is influenced by folk and hip-hop. They enjoyed playing together, though they have no language in common, and their debut album, Faya, proved an unexpected success.

At this midnight session, they showed the strengths and limitations of their collaboration. Backed by bass and drums, the set started full-tilt with Passport, and continued at much the same pace. They both sang, in French and English, with Kouyate showing a fine, soulful voice and Driscoll switching between singing and rap. The high point of many songs was a kora solo from Kouyate, who produced an astonishing rapid-fire cascade of notes from the African harp that inevitably drew comparisons with Hendrix. When he left the stage to allow Driscoll one song on his own, Mixtape Champs, it sounded sadly ordinary.

If Kouyate's playing was extraordinary, the other musicians were not in the same league. Driscoll sang well, but his electric guitar work was unremarkable, and he sounded far more distinctive when he briefly switched to acoustic guitar, on Zion.

It was a lively, if limited set, and though the project is bringing Kouyate a new English-speaking following, it would be good to hear him branch out further with his own band.

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