Two albums from Mali—the second release in a sparkling Rail Band archive collection, Rail Band 2: Mansa, and Issa Bagayogo's Mali Koura—recorded over thirty years apart, show how electric-roots music ...

With Belle Epoque Vol. 3 - Dioba, the estimable Sterns Africa label has completed another definitive archive project documenting West Africa's post-colonial "belle epoque" of the 1960s and 1970s. The ...

For more than three decades the Super Rail Band has literally electrified the traditional Mande music of Mali, adapting music made for the kora for an almost orchestral dance band. Founded in 1971 as ...

I don't know much about this one, except that it's gorgeous. According to the linter notes: "With their residency in a hotel by the railway station where, in the 1970s, "a motley crew of businessmen .