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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.
SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR
African Spirit
EASTERN BLOK
Folk Tales
HUUN HUUR TU AND CARMEN RIZZO
Eternal
Ben Chatwin
Heat & Entropy
Various Artists – Absolutely Irish
Absoulutely Irish Soundrack
Amadou and Mariam
Dimanche a Bamako
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