The Rough Guide To Urban Mali USA as well as the stunning

as well as the stunning opener ‘Valley Of Brothers’

“I thought it was a squirrel

with booming drums

Famed for their spine-chilling harmonies

But rest assured: it is no accident that these sounds were left in the mix they were captured during a series of recording sessions

The Rough Guide To Urban Mali USA as well as the stunningIt was at the end of the 1990s that the first Malian rap groups appeared on the scene. Influenced by American and French hip hop artists as well as the rise of electronic music, rap fast became a musical medium by which the youth could voice their dissatisfaction with the political classes. It was also around this time that the arrival of the compact disc in Mali meant that bootlegged CDs began to supercede the cassette which had long been the main