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amadou & mariam - folila, (lp + cd) - because music - vinyl

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Genre: African - Mali

1. Dougou Badia (Feat Santigold)
2. Wily Kataso (Feat Tunde & Kyp Of TV On The Radio)
3. Oh Amadou (Feat Bertrand Cantat)
4. Metemya (Feat Jake Shears Of Scissor Sisters)
5. Africa Mon Afrique (Feat Bertrand Cantat)
6. C'est Pas Facile Pour Les Aigles (Feat Ebony Bones)
7. Wari (Feat Amp Fidler)
8. Nebe Miri (Feat Theophilus London)
9. Another Way (Feat Bertrand Cantat)
10. Bagnale (feat Abdallah Oumbadougou)
11. Mogo (feat Bertrand Cantat)
12. Sans Toi
13. Chérie

The husband-and-wife team have blazed a charmed trail out of Mali to conquer the world, but Folila, packed with western friends, mixes the inspired and mundane. (regarding tracklisting - only the LP tracks are shown - there's more on the CD that comes with this LP) Check!

For Folila (which means "music" in Bambara), they took an unusual approach to making a record, essentially making the same album three times. They recorded it once in New York with a host of indie rock musicians helping out, and again in Mali with a group of musicians from Mali's popular and traditional music communities. And then they took it to Paris, where they took the two recordings, which were made with matched keys and tempos, and mixed them together into a very literal genre hybrid. Featuring the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, Ebony Bones, Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe ao