Amadou And Mariam : Dimanche A Bamako

Great listening, with lots of depth.
- Sasha Daucus, 04/05/2007, USA

Never heard them. Read about their story. Bought the CD. Love their sound! Worth taking the risk to hear someting new.
- Jerry Mcguire, 01/03/2006, USA

Full title is: Dimanche a Bamako

Amadou and Mariam are a middle-aged blind couple from Mali who have been singing and playing together since the 1970s, when they met at a school for the blind in Bamako. For years, they have enjoyed modest success, with Amadou playing guitar alongside Salif Keita in Les Ambassadeurs, and the couple's own R&B fusion albums notching up moderate sales in France as well as Africa. But they were hardly celebrities. Suddenly, all that has changed. Manu Chao heard them and was so impressed that he offered to produce, co-write and even perform on their latest album, Dimanche ? Bamako. The album is a slice of Afro-pop heaven, stippled with Chao's stylistic fingerprints (street noises, wailing sirens, reggae-lite, sonic trickery). Nonesuch. 2005.