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Tomorrow (Mon) Amadour & Mariam now at The Village

  • 25-09-2005 2:20pm
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    jmc
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    If you can at all, check this out. Should be inspirational!
    Ashley Beedle remixes of "Coulibaly" are great as well.

    AMADOU & MARIAM
    FIRST IRISH DATE
    TOMORROW, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH

    *NOW AT THE VILLAGE, DUBLIN
    *Moved up from Whelans due to popular demand.

    NEW 'COULIBALY' 12" OUT NOW
    FEATURING REMIXES FROM ASHLEY BEEDLE (`Ashley Beedle's Afrikanz
    On Marz') AND FRED CHICHIN.

    Catch the mighty Amadou & Mariam Live for their Irish debut at The
    Village tomorrow night, Monday September 26th.

    Doors: 7.30pm
    Ticket: 20 euro from Road Records, Ticketmaster and The WaV
    Ticketbox (1890 32000 7 at Whelans.

    - THE INDEPENDENT 1/8/05
    "Sunday was the debut of the hotly anticipated blind Malian couple
    Amadou & Mariam, who played a funky set of Malian rock 'n' roll and
    provided one of the most exciting and electrifying moments of the
    festival.

    "Beside Amadou's phenomenal guitar playing, his mostly French band
    provided a tight background to the blind couple's compositions"
    - Phil Meadley

    THE EVENING STANDARD 1/8/05
    "We can only imagine how the Malian duo Amadou & Mariam, who played
    Womad yesterday afternoon, would have blown away the crowed at Hyde
    Park (Live . They are hot property since their recent album with
    Manu Chao and are Africa's funkiest band" - Simon Broughton

    BBC RADIO 3, ANDY KERSHAW live broadcast of 'Coulibaly' and 'Chante
    Chante' 31/07/05
    "The big African music success story of this year. They've sold a
    huge number of CDs in the last year, enough to make Bob Geldof
    speechless"
    Listen online: [www.bbc.co.uk]

    AMADOU & MARIAM
    NEW SINGLE AS PRELUDE TO UK & IRELAND TOUR

    African stars Amadou & Mariam have just released the new single,
    `Coulibaly'.

    The tune is taken from the duo's groundbreaking album
    `Dimanche à Bamako', which is currently number three in
    the French national chart.

    The single features the original album version of `Coulibaly'
    -
    produced by the celebrated French/Latin artist Manu Chao - together
    with two special club mixes, the first by French artist Fred Chichin
    and the other by Ashley Beedle.

    The Chichin mix was recently previewed on the Warchild charity's
    download website warchildmusic.com, where it was picked up by BBC
    Radio 1 presenter Zane Lowe who claimed it was "the sleeper hit of
    the summer".

    The single's other mix is credited as `Ashley Beedle's
    Afrikanz On Marz' - Beedle is one of the UK's most prolific
    producers and remixers, a reputation established through a whole
    range of projects over the past decade, most recently including X-
    Press 2.

    `Coulibaly' will be available on both CD and 12-inch vinyl
    and its release comes as the prelude to Amadou & Mariam's first
    UK tour + Dublin.

    `Dimanche à Bamako' was released in the UK on 6th June.

    The album met with extraordinary critical applause which was quickly
    underlined by the acclaim Amadou & Mariam received for their sell-out
    UK debut headlining show in London that same week. The duo also
    triumphed at the WOMAD Festival in Reading earlier this month, a
    performance by "Africa's funkiest band" according to the Evening
    Standard.

    The duo's latest successes add an extra dimension to the reputation
    they have long since acquired in their native Mali and throughout
    West Africa. Amadou Bagayoko, for instance, cut his musical teeth
    playing guitar in the Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako, one of the
    hottest bands in West Africa during the Seventies.

    His musical partnership with wife Mariam Doumbia ignited with a
    series of cassette albums recorded in the Côte d'Ivoire during the
    late-Eighties and early-Nineties. Those albums brought them fame
    right across the African continent.

    Amadou & Mariam also found a European home in Paris. From 1998 they
    toured heavily throughout France, at the same time releasing three
    major label albums that enhanced their reputations throughout the
    world.

    The duo came to the attention of Manu Chao, the legendary artist
    whose 1998 `Clandestino' album had proved to be a landmark of
    Latin music.

    Chao agreed to produce Amadou & Mariam's next album, resulting
    in `Dimanche à Bamako', which was released in France at
    the end of last year.


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