In celebration of Malian songwriter and guitarist Afel Bocoum's forthcoming studio album Lindé-due September 4 via World Circuit Records and executive produced by Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and ...

When Ali Farka Touré died in 2006, Afel Bocoum seemed perfectly placed to take over the great man’s mantle. Touré’s compelling desert blues had earned him a roster of western admirers ranging from Ry ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Afel Bocoum’s musical career (he is also an agricultural adviser) has not been Stakhanovite: now in his mid 60s ...

Acoustic Africa is a musical journey through the amazing history and richness of African guitar traditions led by three African performers: Malian superstar Habib Koité, Oliver Mtukudzi and Afel ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Celebrated Malian songwriter and guitarist Afel Bocoum's new studio album Lindé is ...

BAMAKO'S Institut National des Arts is a crumbling colonial building - an eccentric mixture of art deco and traditional mud-brick architecture. In the fly-blown auditorium, curious locals watch as ...

Before delving into the musical contents of Mali Music, a bit of background information: Mali is a small country in West Africa, home of one of the world’s most fascinating music cultures. Damon ...

Singer/guitarist Afel Bocoum is a protege and neighbor of master Malian musician Ali Farka Toure from the desert town of Niafunke, and as his gorgeous debut LP “Alkibar” demonstrates, he may well be ...

This edition of All Songs Considered opens with the music of Joe Wong, known for scoring the Netflix series Russian Doll and Master of None. Here, he's making songs celebrating the life of his father ...

The "Acoustic Africa'' tag was devised by Putumayo, the world-music label, to market a compilation of previously recorded African folk-pop. The three headliners who performed under the rubric Thursday ...

Protégé of the late, great Ali Farka Toure, Malian singer and guitarist Afel Bocoum makes compellingly stark music that is paradoxically warm in feel. If his mentor’s bluesy moan dominated everything ...