Oumou Sangaré – Seya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oumou-sangare-seya-joy/
Seya (Joy), released in 2009, was the first album in six years from ‘Mali’s Star of Stars’ and it reaffirmed her position as one of Africa’s great female vocalists and an African phenomenon.
Since Moussolou, her debut release, rocketed her to national superstardom in 1989 she has retained her position as one of West Africa’s most […]
Nfaly Diakité – Mogote Diabeye
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nfaly-diakite-mogote-diabeye/
“Hunter Folk Vol 1: Tribute to Toumani Koné” is the first solo album by Nfaly Diakité, recorded in Bamako in June 2020. On the album, Nfaly is the only singer, providing backing vocals and playing the donso ngoni and keregne. The album is a tribute to the storyteller and poet Toumani Koné, the greatest donso […]
Dosso by Mo DJ
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dosso-mo-dj-mali/
Watch this (old…) video. Filmed mostly @ Bamako’s bus station, the music was mixed by my friend Mo DJ, Electronic Marabout, Moriké Keita. […]
Ali Farka Toure – Savane
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ali-farka-toure-savane/
More info on the 20th anniversary edition of this album.
Amadou & Mariam – Labendela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amadou-mariam-labendela-world-food/
Malian pop-duo and African superstars, Amadou & Mariam, became World Food Programme’s Ambassadors Against Hunger in 2010.
They dedicated the song “Labendela” (which means "Children are the Future") in 2011 to raise awareness in Europe about the global hunger challenge.
Miss Maawa – Bi Fourou (2009)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miss-maawa-bi-fourou-2009/
Miss Maawa, aka Miss Maawa “Malaika,” was born in 1982 in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. The daughter of singer Kagbe Sidibe is following in her mother’s footsteps in the Wassoulou genre of music.
She began her solo career at the age of 17 with the release of her first album in Ivory Coast “Laihilalailala,” followed […]
Tamikrest – Assikel
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-assikel/
The iconic Saharan rock band’s sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence.
Songs of resistance, community and longing. Music for this moment.
Featuring: Ibrahim Ag Alhabib (Tinariwen)
Salif Keita – Samfi
https://amf.didiermary.fr/salif-keita-samfi/
Talé est un album de Salif Keïta sorti le 12 novembre 2012. Le titre Samfi (ou Samfy) est très électro et contient un sample de B-52, Planet Claire.
Anansy Cissé – Aïgouna
https://amf.didiermary.fr/anansy-cisse-mali-desert-blues/
Anansy Cissé re-works the West African Desert Blues genre with a new, agitated attitude and souped-up guitar distortions.
Featuring the soku fiddle playing of Zoumana Tereta and accompanied by n’goni, bass and calabash, Cissé’s sound harnesses musical traditions and spits it out anew, taking us into “Mali Overdrive” (2014).
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Anansy Cissé – Foussa Foussa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/anansy-cisse-foussa-foussa/
Four years in the making, Anoura (The Light) sees the return of Anansy Cissé in 2021. Drawing inspiration from the tumultuous upheaval in his homeland, Anansy offers a positive message in these songs of love, respect and hope for better times ahead.
Remarkably Anansy Cissé began working on this, his […]
Inna Modja – Motel Bamako
https://amf.didiermary.fr/inna-modja-motel-bamako/
Motel Bamako is Inna Modja’s third studio album in 2015. It marks a musical turning point, after her single “For my land” in 2012, abandoning the light pop melodies and singing or rapping mainly in Bambara, but also in English and French, about love, the wounds of war, the image of women, etc. […]
Ambassadeur International – N’Toman
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ambassadeur-international-ntoman/
Ambassadeur International, ex Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako. From the album Mandjou (1978) with the young Salif Keita and his fantastic voice. With Kante Manfila, Cissoko Moussa, Ousmane Kouyate and Sekou Diabate.
Tinariwen – Emmaar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-emmaar/
Emmaar (“the heat on the breeze”) is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014 and their first full album not recorded in Africa.
After Tinariwen’s previous album won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 2012, the band was displaced by a Tuareg rebellion in their home region of […]
Inna Modja – For my Land, Pour mon Pays
https://amf.didiermary.fr/inna-modja-for-my-land-pour-mon-pays/
Dans “For my Land, Pour mon Pays” en 2012, Inna Modja rendait hommage à son pays, le Mali et aux pays de chacun d’entre nous. Cette chanson suit la parution de son second album “Love Revolution.”
Avec ce titre, Inna Modja déclare son amour pour son pays. À l’heure où le climat politique au Mali […]
Fatoumata Diawara – Ambe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fatoumata-diawara-ambe/
Composed during the first lockdown, Fatoumata enlisted revered female musicians Angelique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves, China Moses, Inna Modja, Somi, Mayra Andrade, Thandiswa Mazwai and Terri Lyne Carrington to collaborate on the track.
Ambe” means “altogether” in Bambara.
Some of these artists are also known for their own campaigns, against sexism and other causes, [...]
Salif Keita – Nou Pas Bouger revisité
https://amf.didiermary.fr/salif-keita-nous-pas-bouger-revisite/
2 versions du célèbre titre de Salif Keita, une chanson qui traite de l’immigration. “Nous pas bouger revisité” par des groupes de Rap.
Ce titre est repris en 2006 avec son compatriote et maître du N’goni, Moriba Koïta et le groupe afro-rap sénégalais Daara J.
Tamikrest – Awnafin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tamikrest-awnafin/
An iconic Saharan Rock band, Tamikrest was formed in 2006 by Ousmane Ag Mossa, Cheikh Ag Tiglia, and Aghaly Ag Mohamedine in Tinzawaten, on the border between Algeria and Mali, inspired by the musical heritage of Tinariwen, and driven by the desire to amplify the oppressed voice of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg) people. It’s more Desert Rock, than Blues… […]
Super Biton de Ségou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-biton-segou/
“Né de la fusion de plusieurs orchestres régionaux au milieu des années 60, le Super Biton de Ségou s’est fait connaître du grand public malien lors des Semaines de la Jeunesse, où il a raflé plusieurs prix de 1964 à 1968”.
Super Biton de Segou – Bara Musso
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-biton-de-segou-bara-musso/
Super Biton de Segou was one of the great bands of Mali of the 1970s and 1980s, created as the Orchestre Régional de Segou, at the first Biennale in 1970 where they won several prices. They were part of all the great Post-independence Malian orchestras. Super Biton was created in the mid-1960s, with the members […]
Bamba Wassoulou Groove – Dankélé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bamba-wassoulou-groove-dankele/
Bamba Wassoulou Groove, a collective of five musicians, founded in Bamako in 2013 by the late Bamba Dembelé—percussionist and co-founder of the iconic Super Djata Band— is rooted in the rich legacy of Malian music.
Nahawa Doumbia – Nyama Toutou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nahawa-doumbia-nyama-toutou/
Nahawa Doumbia (born ca. 1961 in Mafélé, near the border with Côte d’Ivoire) is a singer from Mali’s Wassoulou region.
In a career that lasted for over four decades, she was an important musician in the development and definition of Wassoulou music, the popular music from her area of Southern Mali, which in turn had […]
St Germain – Sittin’ Here
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sittin-here-st-germain/
“Sittin’ here” by St Germain comes from his eponym album released in 2015, and features the Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia, with her song Koro Dia.
Lobi Traore – Bwati Kono
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lobi-traore-bwati-kono/
Lobi Traore was first known from one of the many dimly lit grimy night clubs of Bamako, with his overdriven amp and ungrounded fuzzbox pedal.
Bwati Kono was recorded live in two separate sessions and released in 2011.
Lobi Traore – Bamako Nights
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lobi-traore-sigui-nyongon-son-fo/
Ali Farka Toure said Lobi Traore was the greatest Malian guitar player…
Here he’s recorded live in “Bamako Nights – Live at Bar Bozo” in 1995.
Bamako Nights captures the incendiary genius of Lobi Traoré, a soulful singer/songwriter and blazing electric guitarist of Mali, who died too young – just 49 years old – in 2010. […]
DJ Snake - Patience (with Amadou & Mariam)
Official Short Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aSwM4x3sAM
A cinematic exploration of immigration and the migrant crisis
"French Algerian DJ Snake’s striking seven-minute video for 'Patience' features actor Omar Sy and is fueled by a classic Amadou & Mariam song."
Sabali means "patience" and "immortality"
This is the last performance of Amadou Bagayoko.
