Amadou & Mariam: Dimanche à Bamako
CML call number: CD/INTERNATIONAL/Amadou
Contents: M' Bifé, M' Bifé Balafon, Coulibaly, La Réalité, Sénégal Fast Food, Artistiya, La Fête au Village, Camions Sauvages, Beaux Dimanches, La Paix, Djanfa, Taxi Bamako, Politic Amagni, Gnidjougouya, M' Bifé Blues.
Josh Tyrangiel wrote in Time: "World music doesn't have a reputation for fun, and Amadou & Mariam, the self-proclaimed Blind Couple of Mali, might not seem the likeliest candidates to rock the boat. But a) they wear the coolest shades in the history of sightlessness, and b) they have partnered with Spanish-French producer Manu Chao, whose interest in multiculturalism stops at every country's best pop hooks. Listening to the fusion of Amadou & Mariam's polyrhythmic blues with Chao's exuberant rip-offs is like watching another nation's most hysterically bad TV; you feel as if you're learning something, even though you're enjoying yourself. > Best Tracks: Senegal Fast Food, Taxi Bamako" ("Best of 2005: Music," 12/26/05-1/2/06).
Is it true that world music doesn't have a reputation for fun?? What a sad waste that would be. …
Contents: M' Bifé, M' Bifé Balafon, Coulibaly, La Réalité, Sénégal Fast Food, Artistiya, La Fête au Village, Camions Sauvages, Beaux Dimanches, La Paix, Djanfa, Taxi Bamako, Politic Amagni, Gnidjougouya, M' Bifé Blues.
Josh Tyrangiel wrote in Time: "World music doesn't have a reputation for fun, and Amadou & Mariam, the self-proclaimed Blind Couple of Mali, might not seem the likeliest candidates to rock the boat. But a) they wear the coolest shades in the history of sightlessness, and b) they have partnered with Spanish-French producer Manu Chao, whose interest in multiculturalism stops at every country's best pop hooks. Listening to the fusion of Amadou & Mariam's polyrhythmic blues with Chao's exuberant rip-offs is like watching another nation's most hysterically bad TV; you feel as if you're learning something, even though you're enjoying yourself. > Best Tracks: Senegal Fast Food, Taxi Bamako" ("Best of 2005: Music," 12/26/05-1/2/06).
Is it true that world music doesn't have a reputation for fun?? What a sad waste that would be. …
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