Consumer Guide Album

Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako: Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako [Sterns Africa, 2014]
Two discs of accomplished, formative Cuban Malian music in the evolving fusion rightly associated with the dominant Salif Keita, whose tracks outshine those of singers as top-drawer as Kante Manfila as songs ("Bolola Sanou," "Mali Denou," "Mana Mana," "Djoula") ★★★