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Album

Mogoya

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Bena Bena; Yere Faga; Fadjamou; Mali Niale; Kamelemba; Djoukourou; Kounkoun; Minata Waraba; Mogoya.

Article: Album Review

After an eight-year recording hiatus, Malian superstar vocalist Oumou Sangaré returns to the international spotlight with a new record, on a new label, but with the same steadfast focus on African women's rights. Mogoya is her first release on the Paris-based No Format indie label, after releasing five albums over twenty years with World Circuit. Sangaré ...

News: Recording

An Act of Defiance: Northern Mali Guitar Legend Baba Salah Plays for a Silenced People

February 25, 2013

Malian guitarist Baba Salah comes from the city of Gao, a remote trading hub nestled on the banks of the Niger river, situated at the edge of the Sahara desert. Ethnic Songhai, Tuareg, Fulani and Arabs - among other peoples - all call the city home and as the capital of one of West Africa’s most ...

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News: Award / Grant

Back Home in Mali, Khaira Arby Wins National Award

June 8, 2011

The Tamani d'Or: Mali Lavishes Love on Crossover Indie Darling and Pioneering Singer Khaira Arby with an Achievement Award It's a rare artist who can take the U.S. media and SXSW by storm while garnering profound respect as a cultural leader in her homeland. And it's even rarer when that artist can keep true to her ...

Album

Seya

By Oumou Sangaré

Label: Curly Music Productions
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Sounsoumba; 02. Sukunyali; 03. Kounadya; 04. Donso; 05. Wele Wele Wintou; 06. Senkele Te Sira; 07. Djingui; 08. Seya; 09. Iyo Djeli; 10. Mogo Kele; 11 Koroko.

Article: Album Review

Oumou Sangare: Seya

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 15, 2009

Perché dovremmo comprare un CD cantato in maliano e registrato con strumenti sconosciuti come il kamele ngoni, lo djembe drum o il karagnan? Gusto per l'esotico? Tendenza al “sentiamolo strano"? O, semplicemente, scoperta di mondi sonori e linguistici affascinanti? È la doppia faccia della world music. Né più né meno. Oumou Sangare non si muove. Non ...

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Article: African Jazz

Oumou Sangare: A New Masterpiece from Mali

by Chris May
February 28, 2009

Oumou Sangare Seya World Circuit 2009 Before European-derived concepts of career management became widespread among African recording artists, following the emergence of the world music movement in the late 1980s and 1990s, a musician's stature could be measured by the frequency of the albums he (or, less often, ...