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Dr Rhythm, CD Review >>
This is what Rokia Traore should have done. A live album capturing the excitement and spontaneity of a Malian band in concert. Habib Koite, fromWassoulou, has been around for a while, and put out a couple of albums on Putumayo, as well as another on World Village. His touring band includes the great Malian balafon player, Keletigui Diabate, who led his own phenomenal band, Keletigui and his Tambourinis back in the heyday of electrified Manding pop championed by Syliphone. This double album, recorded in Europein the summer of 2002, starts off with Koite's hit "Muso Ko" (also the title of his earlier World Village album). When the band starts to jam, things really open up, though after the first album it starts sprawling. There area couple of ten-minute tracks on each disc and a 16-minute jam on "Kunfeta"at the end. Inevitably on a double live album there are flat spots, like when the bass player does a popping solo, or the gratuitous reggae number,but fans of Habib Koite will forgive that and add this to their collection. 01/05/04
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