Folila - Amadou & Mariam
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  • Summary: The album mixes recording sessions from New York and Mali featuring such guests as Tunde Adebimpe, Bertrand Cantat, Ebony Bones, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, Santigold, Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters, Theophilus London, and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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  1. Positive: 18 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 24
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  1. The Telegraph (UK)
    Apr 2, 2012
    100
    Mixing up elements of rock, pop, blues, jazz, soul and funk, each song finds its way into a supple groove and just bounces around there as though Amadou's guitar strings and Mariam's vocal chords were made of musical elastic.
  2. All Music Guide
    Apr 12, 2012
    80
    Folila is great music. Period.
  3. Spin
    May 1, 2012
    80
    Amadou and Mariam were wise to forgo a full-on return-to-roots move: They're no kind of traditionalists, let alone folkies, and if their songs lovingly reimagine Bamako, cosmopolitan Paris is their spiritual, as well as their physical, home.
  4. Mojo
    Apr 25, 2012
    60
    There is much here to enjoy. [May 2012, p.93]
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  1. OneDayBail
    10
    Wonderful! This album is one of the best so far this year. personally, when there are lyrics in languages you dont understand, it adds a satisfying sense of escape from the world around you. this album is meant to be an escape where the sound is everything. great example of breaking musical borders and creating new mixtures of feelings. definitally listen to this!… Expand

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