Thursday, September 1 2011
Mamani Keita: Gagner L’Argent Français
The Malian singer stays steady and firm at the centre while the Frenchman roams baroque around her, fascinated by her ringing treelike isolation.
Tuesday, August 30 2011
Various Artists: The Rough Guide to African Guitar Legends
The boundary for this compilation is huge, and surrounds all of Africa, a continent with more guitarists and guitar styles than anyone can easily count.
Monday, July 25 2011
Sorry Bamba: Volume One 1970 - 1979
It's starting to feel -- heady delusion -- as if the rest of the globe is going to be able to relive 1970s West Africa completely just by bouncing from label to label.
Monday, June 13 2011
Boubacar Traoré: Mali Denhou
The sound of a man in no hurry and his patient guitar, which is less imperious than the guitar of Touré.
Wednesday, October 6 2010
Khaïra Arby: Timbuktu Tarab
What's unfamiliar here is Arby herself, driving everything forward at a coruscating pace.
Thursday, September 2 2010
Salif Keita: La Différence
The sound is so steady and so fluid that it might have turned to mush if it didn't have so many strong and piquant things bearing it up.
Tuesday, April 13 2010
Tinariwen: 19.Feb.2010 - Brooklyn
Tinariwen paid a visit to Brooklyn's Bell House this past February.
Thursday, February 25 2010
Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté: Ali and Toumani
This is a deep, darkly beautiful work, and the kind of interplay between these two men is exceedingly rare in any type of music.
