2005-08-09
The husband and wife team of team of Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia, who met in the mid 1970s at the Institute for Blind Youth in Bamako (the capital of Mali), present a start-to-finish infectious set of music. The beat never quits, and at times feels African, other times Latin and yet other times American r-and-b. Check out "Senegal Fast Food" (#5): to my ears I'm hearing Donna the Buffalo rhythms! Manu Chao, the famous Latin worldbeat artist born in Paris, was blown away after hearing this duo and helped put this fine disc together, playing on most of the cuts himself.
David Darling and The Wulu Bunun
Mudanin Kata
Los Mono
Somos Los Que Estamos
NATURAL BLACK
Far From Reality
Pascal Bokar
American Shores
Various Artists – Absolutely Irish
Absoulutely Irish Soundrack
KONONO NO. 1
Live at Couleur Café
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