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Press Contacts
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TOP TEN – CRITICS CHOICE
(The Year In Pop and Jazz)
" Handfuls of picked notes, the tapping of a calabash and spare
female harmonies add up to memorable songs.”
Jon Pareles, THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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CRITICS’ CHOICE
“One of the finest
records issued anywhere this year is Wanita.”
Timothy White / Editor in Chief, BILLBOARD
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#1 ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2000
“Wanita is the perfect follow-up to the debut Mouneissa. The
mood remains gorgeously low key and outwardly laid-back. It transfixes
you.”
FOLK ROOTS |
World: YEAR’S BEST CD
" Watch out for this young Malian diva. She sounds like no one
else, and her messages make her a feminist hero of the near nature.
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NEWS & OBSERVER |
10 BEST JAZZ & POP ALBUMS
OF 2000
" Delicate-sounding in African music with a feminist perspective
and layers of double depth.”
TIMES HERALD RECORD |
TOP TEN LIST
“An uncommonly nuanced and hypnotic take on Mali’s already
hypnotic, nuanced wash of strings and xylophones, plaintive voices
and easeful polyrythms. Gorgeous.”
CITY PAGES |
TOP TEN Reader’s Poll
“This very rewarding CD will stamp Traoré’s authority
as the new diva on the Malian scene.”
Graeme Counsel, ROOTS WORLD |
#13! – THE BEST ALBUMS OF
2000
FAST ‘N’ BULBOUS MUSIC WEBZINE |
THE BEST ROOTS MUSIC RECORDINGS
OF THE YEAR
“Wanita showed off the Malian young pretender, and her apprearanc
at Womad cemented her reputation.”
LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES |
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