Nahawa Doumbia - Kanawa - LP - Awesome Tapes From Africa the mysterious steel pan outfit

the mysterious steel pan outfit hailing from Hamburg

the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni

We have asked them not to leave and instead stay home

Features a stellar line up of musicians including Gilberto Gil

prolific Justin Townes Earle and his third album in under three years

Nahawa Doumbia - Kanawa - LP - Awesome Tapes From Africa the mysterious steel pan outfitNahawa Doumbias new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the