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Sahara Soul – featuring Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba, Tamikrest and Sidi Touré

By Damian Rafferty on January 14, 2013
This entry is filed under Events and tagged Barbican, Bassekou Kouyate, Celtic, dub, folk, Glasgow, London, Mali, ngoni, psychedelic, Sahara, soul, Tamikrest, tuareg, Worthy.

One of Africa’s richest musical heartlands, Mali today is sorely afflicted by internal conflict, an ongoing state of adversity from which this defiantly inspiring collaboration, uniting artists from three of Mali’s different musical cultures, arose to demonstrate their shared homeland’s strength, diversity, and its music’s power to bring people together.

26 January 2013 – Barbican, London

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Boubacar Traore + Munto Valdo at Ronnie’s

By Damian Rafferty on May 17, 2012
This entry is filed under Events and tagged Boubacar Traore, Kora, Mali, Mississippi, Niger.

Ronnie Scott’s 10th -11th July 2012 / £24 – £45 / Doors 6pm / www.ronniescotts.co.uk / 020 7439 0747

Only his voice can blend Niger and Mississippi river alluvia with such moving authenticity. His unique, inimitable, self-taught guitar technique owes a great deal to his kora influences, but its shades and phrasing also suggest the great black bluesmen of the deep American South: Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and others.

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Fatoumata Diawara – Malian pathbreaker

By Damian Rafferty on August 23, 2011
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Features and tagged Cheikh Tidane Seck, Fatoumata Diawara, Herbie Hancock, jazz, Mali, Nick Gold, Oumou Sangare, Switch, world circuit.

Fatoumata Diawara by Youri Lenquette

Fatou is set to be the next sensation from Mali, a country embarrassingly rich in musical talent. She has a sound like no other and an easy charm that wins over audiences immediately. On the eve of the release of her debut album, due out on World Circuit, Fly wanted to find out what makes her tick Continue reading Fatoumata Diawara – Malian pathbreaker

WOMAD 2011

By Damian Rafferty on July 30, 2011
This entry is filed under Downloads, Events and tagged Afrocubism, Ali Faiz Ali, Alpha Blondy, Baaba Maal, Bellowhead, Donso, dub, Dub Colossus, Ebo Taylor, El Tanbura, Ethiopian, festival, folk, gary crosby, India, Jamaica, jazz, Jazz Jamaica, Mali, Orissa, Paul Bradshaw, Qawwali, rock, Samuel Yirga, Straight No Chaser, Taraf de Haidouks, Womad.

Round up: despite a wobbly moment with the weather on Friday morning, the festival was flawless in every other way. Some great bands, clearly enjoying playing to audiences free to dance and enjoy the non-auditorium experience, strutted the various stages. My favourites were probably Alpha Blondy (I didn’t even know I liked his music that much before), Baaba Maal of course and Faiz Ali Faiz among the bigger names. The dynamo Nomfusi was a refreshing blast of energy and the reflexive Samuel Yirga caught my attention among the newer names.

It was great to see the festival so well organised. Almost no litter at all thanks to enterprising children getting money back on empty plastic glasses, the beautiful arboretum to wander through, great indian food and some damn fine coffee made it a real pleasure to be there.
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Amkoullel – The Fula Child

By Damian Rafferty on July 16, 2011
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Features, Features and tagged Africa, Afrocubism, Amkoullel, Europe, festival, Festival in the Desert, France, hip hop, London, Mali, ngoni, rap.

‘The Malian Hip Hop prodigy honouring the African youth’ profiled by his international manager and one of his biggest fans Marie-Agnes Beau Continue reading Amkoullel – The Fula Child

Tamikrest on tour and new album Toumastin

By Damian Rafferty on June 22, 2011
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Events and tagged Africa, Amadou et Mariam, blues, Burkina Faso, Desert Blues, Europe, festival, Festival Au Desert, funk, Habib Koité, Kidal, London, Mali, Manchester, North, psychedelic, rock, Sahara, Tamikrest, Tinariwen, tuareg, United States, West Africa, World Music.

Young Tuareg desert blues rockers Tamikrest follow up their critically acclaimed debut album Adagh with Toumastin.

Music always is a borderline experience. Especially when not only stylistically boundaries are shifting, but the centres of musical creativity are moving.

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SMOD – SMOD

By Gerry Hectic on June 8, 2011
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Europe: Reviews and tagged Africa, Amadou et Mariam, Bamako, Belgium, Czech Republic, disco, Ethiopian, festival, folk, France, Gillett, hip hop, London, Mali, Manu Chao, Mulatu Astatke, Paris, podcast, rap, rock, SMOD, soul, Titi Robin, World Music.

SMOD

What with the “Produced By Manu Chao” sticker on the cover and the Metro’s ‘Album of the Week’, what more do you want from SMOD’s third album?

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Oumou Sangare – Barbican, London, 30 June ’11

By Damian Rafferty on June 8, 2011
This entry is filed under Events and tagged Africa, Analog Africa, Barbican, Caribbean, Latin, London, Mali, New York, Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, tropical.

Oumou Sangare by Damian Rafferty

One of Africa’s finest female vocalists returns to the Barbican with songs from her Grammy-nominated album Seya. With support from Anibal Velasquez y Los Locos del Swing.

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Staff Benda Bilili and Fatoumata Diawara – Roundhouse (Live Review)

By Damian Rafferty on May 16, 2011
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Europe: Features and tagged Congo, Fatoumata Diawara, Mali, Rokia Traore, Roundhouse, soukous, Staff Benda Bilili.

The huge domed chamber of London’s Roundhouse rocked to the Soukadelic sounds of Staff Benda Bilili and melted at the charms of Fatoumata Diawara

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Ludovico Einaudi – The Royal Albert Hall Concert

By Gerry Hectic on November 9, 2010
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews and tagged Berlin, Birmingham, DVD, festival, Kora, London, Ludovico Einaudi, Mali, Milan, Royal Festival Hall, soundtrack, Worthy.

Recorded earlier this year Ludovico Einaudi’s The Royal Albert Hall Concert is a 2CD and DVD set that lets you see and hear Ludocico Einaudi at his best and a reminder to book up now for the November UK tour!

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Afrocubism

By Tim Woodall on November 4, 2010
This entry is filed under Caribbean: Reviews and tagged Afrocubism, Bassekou Kouyate, Buena Vista, Cuba, Kora, Mali, ngoni.

According to World Circuit folklore, this was the album that got away. Apparently, what eventually became the iconic Buena Vista Social Club (BVSC) record was originally conceived as a Mali/Cuba collaboration.

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Lobi Traore – Rainy Season Blues

By Damian Rafferty on August 10, 2010
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews and tagged Bamako, blues, Lobi Traore, Mali, Niger.

Begin at the end, so they say, and the end for Lobi came suddenly and out of the blue. He died in June at 49. Like Habib Koite is, Lobi was a people’s musician. Friendly and down to earth, Lobi was well known to hustlers and music fans alike in clubs like the Djembe in Bamako. A short time before his death, he grabbed half an opportunity to record an album and here it is

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