Indulgence!!
Sheriff Bah | 04/14/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The best CD i've bought this year!!! am getting obsessed with it, in the car, at the office, at home, even my associates who never like any foreign music are singing along in the office when come to my desk. My kids love it too!!"
Highly recommended!
Midwest Book Review | Oregon, WI USA | 06/12/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Salif Keita IS different from most Africans, in that he is albino and has suffered for it, as have other albinos throughout Africa. Profits from LA DIFFERENCE thus will go to Salif's charity to help albinos in Africa. Of course most listeners will not realize this, as the lyrics are not in English or any other European-based language. So why buy this recording? Because it's Keita's most musically realized recording yet, using traditional Malian instruments blended with Western instruments such as piano, electric guitar, but not the brass horns we heard on his early recordings. On some cuts there are Arab-sounding string sections or an oud, perhaps an accordion. Some of these tunes have been in Salif's repertoire for decades but are now done in a softer and more imaginative style. Salif Keita may have started out in a band whose whole purpose was to get people dancing, but now with LA DIFFERENCE and the last two albums that preceded it, Keita shows just how much he has grown as an artist, carefully weaving ancient and modern sounds from around the world into something new, yet deeply rooted and moving. Highly recommended!"