Add Date: March 17
Artist: Amadou & Mariam
Album: Welcome to Mali
Label: Because Music/Nonesuch
Genre: Pop, international
Comments: "The singer Mariam Doumbia and her husband, the guitarist/vocalist Amadou Bagayoko, have been making music together since they first met and fell in love at the Institute for Young Blind People in Bamako, Mali's capital, three decades ago. Over the last few years, they have achieved remarkable critical and popular acclaim in Europe and North America. ...
This follow-up to the duo's Grammy-nominated Dimanche a Bamoko (which made the best of 2005 lists of Rolling Stone, SPIN, Blender, and TIME among others and earned tremendous critical praise from The New York Times and NPR) is truly a work of global pop. Within thirty seconds of popping in the CD, I was grinning to the funky hip-hop infused indie-pop feel of "Sabali." Put a spring in your step and check this one out.
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