Daily EP, Day 3, Track 02 - Amadou et Miriam - "Politic Amagni"

Love the pictures of two beautiful beaming blind married people who happen to be fantastic musicians.

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Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia, a blind married couple whose life story is as remarkable as its music, have long been stars in West Africa. They draw the musical traditions of their natice Mali and the neighboring Ivory Coast, while also embracing the Latin American salsa, Cuban son, reggae, American R&B, and English blues-rock that they discovered via long-distance broadcasts.

Having issued a handful of excellent Afro-rock albums on small independent labels in the last few years, which have attracted attention within the world music community, Amadou and Miriam are poised to break out with Dimanche A Bamako, arguably the best album of a career that goes back 30 years. Produced by mischievous French/Spanish pop star Manu Chao (who even co-wrote and sings on a few tunes), the album fuses the couple's dynamic grooves with the producer's signature everything-and-the-kitchen sink backgrounds. This is truly a collaboration of like-minded individuals: Chao's own rabid multi-culti mix of styles enhances the blind couple's guitar-driven mix of blues-rock and African percussion, as well as Latin, dance and reggae grooves. Highlights include the impossibly catchy 'Senegal Fast Food' and the percolating 'Coulibaly,' while the couple's political bent comes out on 'Politic Amagni.' Truly an album with a global perspective, there is something for everyone here, and rather than diluting the stew, it makes it all the more tasty. � --Tad Hendrickson"