Malian tradition meets contemporary classical music with the fantastic first single from Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet’s upcoming album, “Ladilikan”.

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How to keep progressing without abandoning your roots? Malian legend Oumou Sangaré is back with the answer.

“We are sick of seeing women suffer because of violence. In the family, in the war zones. We want it to stop,” say Les Amazones d’Afrique.

“Né So” (Home) is the title track from Rokia Traoré’s upcoming album, sixth in her outstanding career as an artist.

Born in Kita, Mali, the griot singer Kandia Kouyaté made herself known quite early as a member of L’Ensemble Instrumental National (the National Instrumental Ensemble of Mali).

Julia Easterlin, a Georgia-born Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, met the renowned Malian guitarist and singer, Vieux Farka Touré, for a brief recording session in New York in 2014. Together they created four compositions in next to no time, and “Little Things” is one of them.

Her mother, grandmother, sister, niece and one of her cousins – all of them appear in the new yet old-school video from the Bamako-born, Paris-based soul singer Inna Modja.

Lute virtuoso from Bamako and his family collective Ngoni Ba gave us another great record last year, “Ba Power“, which is his fourth album to date and his debut on the acclaimed Glitterbeat Records.

Lute virtuoso from Bamako and his family collective Ngoni Ba gave us another great record last year, “Ba Power“, which is his fourth album to date and his debut on the acclaimed Glitterbeat Records.