"[it's] shaping up to be the year of the Touareg takeover. Fortunately the appetite for the heavy, bluesy, desert rock made famous by Tinariwen is matched by the supply of fine bands".*
This is what we were saying in 2006 and whilst Tinariwen remain the most well known of the desert blues World/WOMAD discoveries (indeed you'll probably have spotted that they've got a new album just out, 'Amatssou'] for "supply", here's Idrissa Soumaoro on a longer awaited and very rare album during the past 20 years from Idrissa Soumaoro.
Composer, singer, guitarist and master of the kamalen n’goni he sings in French, Bambara and English and throughout the album it's a awash with distinctly West African stringed instruments, percussion with flute and balafon and a very 60s sounding organ; I'd like to think that if the Small Faces ever chilled out in the Desert, they'd produce such a masterpiece as 'Diré'.
For the single, 'Sababou' I'm still love
the organ on this, like a Brian Auger goes to Mali; Malian Mod?
Beautifully sung, it's lovely throughout with highlights like 'Don't Worry' and 'N'den tedi'. There's even a bit of a jazz dance percussion on 'Yélé', brilliant stuff.
The mainstream press (such as MOJO, Uncut, Songlines, The Guardian and the like) will be championing this album (quite rightly) as it's a 10 track love song for 'Diré', a town where he met his wife: I'm in love with 'Diré' (the album) too!
Artist: Idrissa Soumaoro
Title: Diré
Release date: 22nd September, 2023
Label : Mieruba
Catalog Number : -
Format: LP / CD / Digital / Bandcamp
*FLY Global Music - El Tanbura - 'Between The Desert And The Sea' Review: 06 October 2006 (see HERE)
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