VA - African Pearls: Mali - One Day on Radio Mali [2CD Set] (2006)

A near-perfect musical collection. Massively rewarding, and lovers of more modern and commercial Malian music owe it to themselves to hear rootsy singers like the wonderful Fanta Damba and some of her 60's contemporaries from this great musical nation. --Martin Sinnock, Songlines

Absorbing, wide-ranging, rewarding collections from the golden age of African popular music. CD2 opens with the raging guitars and rousing horns of Bembeya Jazz National. It is dominated by some of the country's prominent electric guitar and brass-led orchestras from the early post-colonial era, including Salif Keita's Les Ambassadeurs. Sheer bliss. --Con Murphy, fRoots