Amadou & Mariam – Masiteladi Feat. M
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amadou-mariam-masiteladi-feat-m/
The song “Masiteladi,” featuring Matthieu Chedid (aka -M-), was released on “Welcome to Mali” in 2008, and was part of a promo album in 2010 with remixes by multiple known DJs or artists (Bob Sinclar, Akon, Mo DJ…).
Keletigui Diabate Feat. Habib Koite – Summertime at Bamako
https://amf.didiermary.fr/keletigui-diabate-habib-koite-summertime-bamako/
“Summertime at Bamako” is a track on Kélétigui Diabaté’s album “Sandiya” with Habib Koité on guitar. The master balafonist revisits American composer George Gershwin’s Summertime from Porgy & Bess (1935).
“The song soon became a popular and much-recorded jazz standard, described as ‘without doubt … one of the finest [...]
Maravillas de Mali – Rendez-vous chez Fatimata
https://amf.didiermary.fr/maravillas-mali-rendez-vous-fatimata/
“Rendez-vous chez Fatimata” est la signature d’une lointaine époque musicale, ancrée dans le Danzón (l’un des rythmes au tempo lent, qui s’interconnecte au Son Cubano) avec bien sûr des éléments de rythmes maliens.
Avec ce groupe mythique des années 60, c’est toute une nouvelle génération de musiciens qui montait sur scène. [...]
Oumou Sangaré – Moussolou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oumou-sangare-moussolou/
Acclaimed for its outstanding production, Moussolou, Oumou’s first album sold over 250,000 copies in West Africa and established her as a major star in Mali and beyond. Its title translates as “Women” and many of the songs deal with her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated country that still embraces polygamy. Utterly modern and […]
Songhoy Blues – Worry
https://amf.didiermary.fr/optimisme-heritage-songhoy-blues-worry/
Songhoy Blues switched to acoustic instruments and invited many friends for their album “Héritage,” released in January 2025. A return to their roots, a chance to recharge. This follows “Optimisme” in 2020, with the single “Worry.”
Don’t worry
You’re gonna be happy
Keep working today
That smile will come one day
[…]
Dawda Jobarteh & Toumani Diabaté – Tabara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dawda-jobarteh-toumani-diabate-tabara/
This is pure traditional Kora playing by Dawda Jobarteh & Toumani Diabaté.
The kora is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It combines features of the lute and harp.
In the late 20th century, a 24/5-string model of the kora […]
Mory Kante – La Guinéenne
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mory-kante-guineenne/
Sorti en 2012, “La Guinéenne” est le 11ème et dernier album de Mory Kante, avec pour thèmes récurrents l’optimisme et l’inspiration.Le titre de l’album fait écho à la chanson du même nom, où il témoigne de son amour pour l’Afrique et la Guinée.
Il prodigue à travers les titres de l’album un trésor de conseils […]
FANGA - KUNBE
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Nainy Diabate & Le Kaladjula Band live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nainy-diabate-kaladjula-band-live/
In Mali, the griot Naïny Diabaté is a star. A singer since early childhood, she achieved success in the early 1980s. A tireless advocate for equality, she has placed women’s rights at the heart of Malian music, traditionally a very masculine genre. With this in mind, in 2013 she launched a project aimed at challenging […]
The Original Sound Of Mali
https://amf.didiermary.fr/original-sound-mali-compilations/
The two compilations “Original Sound Of Mali” offer a selection of songs from across the country in the 70s.
Following Mali’s independence, after ten years of maturation, the 1970s saw modern Malian culture revealed to the world through musical anthologies and overviews of national and regional productions. It was a remarkably fertile period of the […]
Tinariwen – Amadjar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tinariwen-amadjar/
From album “Amadjar” in 2019, listen to this first track featuring Micah Nelson, best known as Neil Young’s guitarist. Noura Mint Seymali is also a guest on 3 other tracks.
Amadjar is the eighth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2019. The album’s title means “the foreign traveler” in the Tamashek language. […]
Mali music star Salif Keïta cancels South African concerts over 'xenophobic violence'
Bazoumana, the Djeli and his N’goni
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bazoumana-djeli-ngoni/
Bazoumana, or Banzumana, Sissoko (1890-1987) – aka the “old lion” from Segou – was a n’goni player, a Malian national treasure as well as a djeli (jeli) or griot.
The quintessential n’goni player was the late Banzumana Sissoko, perhaps the most revered and beloved Malian griot of the century. Until his death in 1987, he […]
Salif Keita – Nous pas bouger
https://amf.didiermary.fr/salif-keita-nous-pas-bouger/
“Nous pas bouger” est extrait de l’album Ko-Yan en 1989.
Voir aussi : version remixée avec L Skadrille.
Xhalix – Mali Te Affoo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/xhalix-mali-te-affoo/
Xhalix is a Malian artist, born in Bamako in 1988. With her band Affoo, meaning “unity” in Songhai, she released her first album “Mali Te Affoo” (Mali is one) in 2013.
Music from Saharan Cellphones
https://amf.didiermary.fr/music-saharan-cellphones/
Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation, released in 2011, of music collected from memory cards and cellular phones in the Saharan desert.
In much of West Africa, cellphones are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, [...]
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Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako – Mali Denou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ambassadeurs-motel-bamako-mali-denou/
The original version of Mali Denou, by Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako.
In 1969, an ambitious army lieutenant, a key member of the new junta which had seized power only the previous year, decided that a band was needed to entertain customers at the Motel De Bamako, […]
Les Ambassadeurs – Mali Denou (2015)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ambassadeurs-mali-denou-2015/
In the spirit of friendship and understanding at the root of the band, key members of the band reformed for a series of festival and concert dates throughout Europe and Scandinavia during the summer of 2014 and 2015. It accompanies a compilation of specially mastered recording from 1975 – 1977, when the band was at […]
Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux – Mandjou (TV)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/les-ambassadeurs-internationaux-mandjou-tv/
Avec Salif Keita au chant et le guitariste Manfila Kanté, le titre “Mandjou”, extrait de l’album éponyme sorti en Côte d’Ivoire en 1978, est un hommage au Président guinéen Ahmed Sekou Touré.
C’est ce titre qui va révéler Salif Keita et propulser le chanteur au rang d’idole.
Le contenu de cette chanson est à rapprocher […]
Djelimady Tounkara – Fanta Bourama
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djelimady-tounkara-fanta-bourama/
One of Africa’s most admired guitarists, the virtuosic Tounkara was the longtime lead player in the Rail Band (a.k.a. Super Rail Band), a popular Malian group that was born out of Africa’s midcentury craze for Latin music. On “Fanta Bourama,” a sparkling acoustic track, Tounkara plays a romantic, flamenco-style lead, showing off his chops for […]
Mama Sissoko – Sekechi
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mama-badema-sissoko-sekechi/
In the 1970s, the Malian waves were largely influenced by American music, and Mama Sissoko affirmed his affinity for Blues and Soul music, and in particular that of Otis Redding.
He is friends with Ali Farka Touré from the mid-80s, they meet and play together amicably. 20 years later, Ali Farka was a world star […]
Taga Sidibe – Wassoulou Foli
https://amf.didiermary.fr/taga-sidibe-wassoulou-foli/
Magnifique vidéo de Mamadou “Taga” Sidibé en 2009 pour Wassoulou Foli, le titre principal de l’album éponyme, enregistré en prise directe et l’on admirera l’installation de l’ingénieur du son…
Taga Sidibé est un djembefola renommé de la région du Wassoulou, au sud du Mali. Il s’agit de musique traditionnelle, celle des griots, des guérisseurs, des […]
Trio Da Kali – Yirimadjo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/trio-da-kali-yirimadjo/
Trio Da Kali is a griot music group from Mali constituted of three members in 2012: Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté (vocals), Lassana Diabaté (balafon) and Mamadou Kouyaté (n’goni). Hawa is the daughter of Kassé Mady Diabaté. The latter is the son of the n’goni master Bassekou Kouyate.
They released their latest album “Bagola” in 2025 […]
BKO Quintet – BKO on air
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bko-quintet-bko-on-air-trailer-2013/
BKO is a journey into the heart of contemporary Malian music, combining two of the West African nation most well-known traditions, and bringing together four of Mali finest veteran musicians in the process: Ibrahima Sarr (Oumou Sangaré), Fassara Sacko, NFaly Diakite, and Mamoutou Diabate with French percussionist Aymeric Krol.
BKO Quintet combines the very distinct [...]
