Dimanche à Bamako

Sometimes these ones that are far beyond my usual listening I end up hearing something really interesting to me. This one I didn’t get that. Just wasn’t for me.

Dimanche à Bamako starts well, the opening track is really nice, and really the first four or five are more accessible than a lot of foreign-language/African music we've had on this journey. I dunno if that's a good or a bad thing though, because it then goes back into stuff I don't much care for for the rest of the album, and there's an argument that the back half is more 'typical' of the genre and that the opening to the record is 'westernised' for appeal. Taken purely on the merits of whether I liked it or not, it gets a high 2.5, just above average, because there was some good, lots of meh, nothing I truly disliked. M'Bife is really nice though, again.

Honestly, kind of a basic boring album. Maybe it was innovative for its time.

Respect for adding some actual more worldy music. It was listenable.

Meh

It was an interesting mix and not unpleasant.

Best gezellig, maar na een paar tracks word ik depressief van de vrolijkheid.

English please

i probably would’ve enjoyed this one quite a bit if I understood what was being said. The beats were really exciting and fun to chill to but overall it’s hard for me to enjoy the album without knowing what’s going on. 3.5/10