Browse by Artist: KOITE & BAMADA, HABIB

Artist:	KOITE & BAMADA, HABIB
Title:	Muso Ko
Label:	WORLD VILLAGE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WORLD 468055

"Habib Koité, Mali's maverick singer/songwriter, has earned a worldwide reputation thanks to his critically acclaimed second album, Ma Ya. But it was his first release, Muso Ko, that made him an instant star back home in Mali, and it contains some of his best and most enduring compositions to date. 'Cigarette Abana,' still a mainstay of Koité's live show, has become an anti-smoking anthem these days, but it began in a humble, after hours jam session when Koité was making fun out of the fact that the musicians had run out of smokes. Muso Ko raised Koité and his group, Bamada, from the status of respected Bamako bar band to national headliners with a budding global career. The album draws upon Koité's many years of songwriting and delivers one crowd-pleaser after another."

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page