Kudos to The Lost Maestros for posting this wonderful video (from World Service 's YouTube channel) of the Malian diva Coumba Sidib...

Since its foundation in 1970 as the official orchestra of Mali's National Railway Company, the Rail Band has occupied a prominent ...

Once again I'm forced to apologize for the infrequency of my posts lately. As usual, I have several projects in the hopper, but all kin...

I'm not sure Ama Maïga's Une Fleche Malienne (Disques Sonics SONICS 79426, ca. 1984) succeeds completely as a fusion between traditi...

I'll be out of town for a week and don't expect to be able to blog, but I wanted to get something in, so this one's a quickie. I...

As promised, here is African Divas Vol. 2 , originally posted last year as African Serenades Vol. 47b at Matsuli Music . I apologize for th...

This is the final installment of "Mali Cassette Grab Bag," and this one really is a mixed bag. We've got some highlife, some...

We continue our "Mali Cassette Grab-Bag," a series of clips drawn more or less at random from the recesses of my hard-drive. Next ...

Since I started this blog I've been trying to post at least twice a week. Lately I've been so caught up in other things (namely ...