Sonic Pie Productions represents Kamara Thomas and Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba.
For media inquiries, music licensing, voiceover work or to submit a performance offer, contact sonicpieproductions@gmail.com.
Kamara Thomas
Kamara Thomas writes astro-religious songspells and hypnotic musical tales culled from ancient American songlines and dreamtimes. Her songwriting is influenced by a wide swath of classic country and rock, with echoes of Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty, spirituals, hymns, mountain-songs and Native American shamanism. Kamara has opened for Tift Merritt and Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers and recorded with Ganstagrass.
Based in Durham, NC, she performs solo, and with her band, The Night Drivers–Steve Anderson (drums), Sarah Dawson (backup vocals, harmonica), Nathan Golub (bass), Tim Shearer (guitar) and Gordon Hartin (pedal steel).
Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba
Combining passionate originality and fierce authenticity, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba take West African dance music into new territory—literally, the North Carolina Piedmont. That’s where Cissokho, a griot born to a family of professional musicians in Senegal, makes his transplanted home.
The repertoire is pure Manding, the centuries-old musical culture of Cissokho’s ancestors. It’s reformulated with modernizing impulses in a rock band format: Agile basslines interweave with the melodic twins of kora and electric guitar, undergirded by an explosive rhythm section of djembe and trapset drums. Kora master Cissokho is also the group’s vocal frontman. His electrifying voice propels songs old and new about timeless themes of mythology, migration and universal love.
