*In 2008 Malick Pathé Sow formed his group Maoba, with :

Octave Komlan : percussion
Mady Kouyaté : guitar
Bao Sissoko : kora
Malick Pathé Sow : voice, hoddu, guitar
(and somethimes : Désiré Sommé : guitar)

*In 2010 he recorded the CD Blindnote.

Blindnote brings together the leading members of the Belgian world music scene. Some twenty instruments, from the sub-Saharan hoddu to the Anatolian saz, contribute to Blindnote’s unique meeting of sounds. Blindnote supports the work of the Belgian NGO Light for the World, which cares for blind children in Africa. Blindnote is : Karim Baggili, Malick Pathe Sow, Talike Gelle, Vardan Hovanissian, Emre Gültekin and Osvaldo Hernandez.

*Album with Bao Sissoko september 2012

Over the past few years Senegalese hoddu master Malick Pathé Sow & kora player Bao Sissoko met each other in various projects. During these collaborations they naturally mixed the haunting strings of the hoddu - the lute of the Fula people in Senegal- with the beautiful harmonies of the kora or African harp. Their paths have now merged definitely together to make one unified project that will be released on CD from September 2012.

During this concert/cd they embark on a voyage exploring the enormous potential of these two wonderful instruments, sometimes harmonious, sometimes contrasting. The hoddu (called xalam with the Wolof, hoddu with the fula) a kind of West-African lute with four or five strings, and the more known kora, linked to the Mandinka people, living all over West-Africa and built from a calabash and 21 strings. With these two instruments they also accompany the songs of Malick Pathé Sow wherein he –with his pleasant voice- wonders about live in Senegal and Europe, about values and nature. Add to this some percussion on calabash, background vocals by Bao Sissoko, some interesting stories and the result is a concert that immerses the public in the Senegalese universe of Malick and Bao, at the same time based on tradition and rooted in everyday live.