Various
Midnight In Mali
Various Artists "MIDNIGHT IN MALI" featuring Habib Koite, Keletigui Diabate, Djelimady Tounkara... Malian musicians are renowned for their spontanity. Anyone who has explored Bamakos intimate musical settings - street weddings, courtyard jam sessions and evening concerts at open-air "cultural spaces" where anyone might show up - knows this. And yet the jam session is a side of the music rarely heard in the polished studio recordings that have put this West African musical colossus on the map in recent years. This extraordinary concert, recorded at Bamakos French Cultural Centre on 23rd December 2004, rights the balance, revealing the personalities, humour and improvisational mastery of some of the countrys finest musicians interacting in a once-in-a-lifetime formation.