Early in their career as a duo, Amadou & Mariam were billed as le couple aveugle du Mali, the blind couple from Mali. But they were in a band together before that: L'Eclipse, the student ensemble of Le Institut Des Jeunes Aveugles, the school for blind youth in Bamako.
L'Eclipse, under the direction of Idrissa Soumaoro, keyboard player for Salif Keita's Les Ambassadeurs (who would later recruit Amadou into that combo), made a terrific recording in 1978 that foreshadowed the now recognizable Amadou & Mariam sound. The album has just been reissued, and you'll hear a track from it this week on Global A Go-Go.
It's an all-African program this week (Sunday May 29, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards on the wrir.org archive player, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site), featuring new music from eastern Sudan by Noori & His Dorpa Band, Ethio jazz via Belgium by Alpacas Collective, Moktar Gania's Moroccan gnawa soul, West African divas Fatoumata Diawara and Kandy Guira, plus much more music.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/112678
All the podcasts: radio4all.net/series/Global%20A%20Go-Go
Artist | Country | Song | Recording | Label | Year
Oliver Lake | USA | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | England UK | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
Teta Lando | Angola | Fuguei Na Escola | Tia Chica | N'Gola | 1974
Orchestre Du Bawobab | Senegal-Guine Bissau-Mali-Togo | Jin Ma, Jin Ma | Ndeleng Ndeleng | Musicafrique | 1978
Noori & His Dorpa Band | Sudan | Al Amal | Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass From Sudan's Red Sea Coast | Ostinato | 2022
Gabriella Ghermandi | Ethiopia-Italy | Atse Tewodros | Ethiopia: Celebrating Emperor Tewodros II | ARC | 2016
Alpacas Collective | Belgium | Stranger To Myself | Seven Wisdoms Of Plutonia | Catalpas | 2022
Mulatu Astatke | Ethiopia | Yekatit | Ethio Jazz | Amha | 1974
Bab L'Bluz | Morocco-France | Ila Mata | Nayda! | Real World | 2020
Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul | Morocco-France-Israel | Soudani Foulani | Masterisé | Musjomusic / Nuits d'Afrique | 2022
Aziz Sahmaoui & University Of Gnawa | Morocco-Senegal-France | Ganga Sound Of Mbirika | Poetic Trance | Blue Line | 2019
Fatoumata Diawara | Cote D'Ivoire-Mali-France | Kalan | Maliba | 3ème Bureau / Wagram | 2022
Youssou N'Dour | Senegal | Xel | Rokku Mi Rokka (Give And Take) | Nonesuch | 2007
Collectif Zouglou | Cote D'Ivoire | Liberez Mon Pays | Liberez Mon Pays - Single | self-released | 2003
Kandy Guira | Burkina Faso-France | Wasindi | Nagtaba | Vlad Productions | 2021
Idrissa Soumaoro Et L'Eclipse De L'I.J.A. | Mali | Fama Allah | Le Tioko-Tioko | Mr Bongo | 1978
Amadou & Mariam | Mali | Chantez Chantez | Tje Ni Mousso | Polydor | 1999
Amadou & Mariam | Mali | Batoma | Welcome To Mali | Because Music | 2008
Alhaji K. Frimpong | Ghana | Susa Dwa W'Anum | Abrabo | Hot Casa | 1984
Sena Dagadu | Ghana-Hungary | Accra City People | Lots Of Trees | Irie Maffia | 2013
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