Artist: Amadou & Mariam
Title: Ce N'est Pas Bon
Label: Because
Genre: Ethnic
Bitrate: 188kbit av.
Time: 00:11:21
Size: 16.03 mb
Rip Date: 2009-02-06
Str Date: 2009-03-09
1. Ca N'est Pas Bon (Radio Edit) 3:09
2. Ca N'est Pas Bon (Cantina Demo) 4:23
3. Ca N'est Pas Bon (Album Version) 3:49
Release Notes:
If you hadn't ever heard a record by this Malian husband and
wife duo, but had only read of their initial meeting at
Bamako's Institut des Jeunes Aveugles in the punk rock year of
1976, and the heart-warming showbiz odyssey that led them to
their current exalted status as improbable figureheads of
African music's commercial upsurge, it would be all too easy
to think of Amadou & Mariam as a kind of Afropop Peters and
Lee. But while the ability to dispense feelgood vibrations
from within a doubly reinforced stockade of blindness and
domestic felicity has been a feature of their ever-widening
allure, it is the spindly irresistibility of their music that
is the most important thing about them.
Both the powerhouse blues-rock guitar of Amadou Bagayoko and
the sweetly stentorian voice of Mariam Doumbia contain
severity as well as gentleness. The potent personal chemistry
through which these impulses are resolved places the Malians
firmly in the lineage of such charismatic outriders of
yin/yang balance as the Carpenters, Sonic Youth and the White
Stripes. And such is the inviolate solidity of the duo's
high-tensile core that none of the consequences of the success
they've enjoyed - not even Amadou suffering the indignity of
being called 'a fucking geezer' by Damon Albarn in this mag
last month - seems to have had the slightest impact on it.