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The Original Sound Of Mali

MR BONGO. CD/DL/LP Just when you thought the Malian archives had surrendered all their treasures… The headline news is the unissued debut recordings of Amadou & Mariam (with Idrissa Soumaoro); add Salif Keita’s majestic Mandjou and the hard groove of Les Ambassadeurs’ M’BouramMousso (or their fiddle-driven Fatema), and you have a bunch of good reasons for diligent crate-diggers to keep right on digging.