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.John McDowell
Speaking the Mamma Tongue
Pauline Scanlon
Red Colour Sun
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East Of The Sun, and West Of The Moon
Lila Downs
La Cantina
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Calypsoul 70: Caribbean and Calypso Crossover 1969-1979
Aurora
All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
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