A very good non-traditional song with Kora is "Go Long" by Joanna Newsom (although it does also use harp mainly. Haha)
A dramatic reminisce about her failed previous relationship with a songwriter, framed within the metaphor of the myth of Bluebeard (particularly using how Bela Bartok's opera treats the myth)
And a more traditional use of the Kora, along with a Balaphon (like a xylophone) and the recitation of the only still-living Epic Poem Bardic Recitation tradition today,-- singing a passage of the Sundiata/SonJara epic of Mali: