Love this CD

This is a GREAT CD, the music is wonderful, inventive, different and amazingly engaging. I've had it on repeat play for days. Mariam's voice and the guitar work is outstanding. I recommend it. If you love West African music, you'll love this. If you want to try West African music, Dimanche a Bamako is a great start.

Charming afro-pop--Not as funky as the reviews suggested

Distinctly West African in its light charm. But great variation across tracks, almost as though produced by a collective with lots of room for different people to lead. Typically transparently layered with varying mixes of polyrhythms, harder Western grooves, and many different special effects. The influence of rap and reggae is apparent throughout. Sung mainly in clear French, but in African languages, too. General mood is happy and light. But stories about politics and society weave throughout like a kind of reporting. Children pop everywhere in many guises. Not at all what I expected (something closer to Afrobeat) from all the hype.

Has created addiction in this African music novice...

I just came across this CD by doing an online search, since I felt like I never listened to any African music on my own, despite the fact that the little I have heard always seemed very pleasant to me.