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- Summary: The latest full-length release for Malian singer-songwriter Oumou Sangaré was written in Baltimore during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
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- Record Label: World Circuit
- Genre(s): International
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May 2, 2022On Timbuktu, Oumou Sangaré continues to prove how much work she puts in to maintain her reputation as a musical force and yet how open she is to worthwhile sonic change. There’s not a sound or note wasted.
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May 2, 2022Although this album was written at her new house in Baltimore, when Sangaré got stuck there during lockdown, many of these tracks look to her home region of Wassoulou, whose sung heritage and stringed instruments she has turned into an international world music phenomenon.
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MojoMay 2, 2022Without making concessions, she's delivered her most accessible album yet, perhaps even her best. [Jun 2022, p.84]
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UncutMay 2, 2022For all the record’s sonic invention, though, its Sangaré’s voice that commands attention, a rich, textured instrument that has only grown more nuanced and subtle with age. [May 2022, p.34]