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  • Amadou & Mariam: "Dougou Badia" [EP]
    Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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    Amadou & Mariam's "Dougou Badia" EP, Featuring Santigold, Out Now in Advance of New Album, "Folila"

    Dougou Badia, the new digital EP from Malian duo Amadou & Mariam, is out today. The four-song EP includes "Dougou Badia," the first song off Amadou & Mariam's forthcoming album, Folila, which is due out on April 2. Santigold, who co-wrote the song with Mariam, joins her on vocals. Also included are an alternate mix of the song by Danger Mouse cohort Kennie Takahashi; the album track “Oh Amadou” (with Bertrand Cantat); and a live version of “Wily Kataso” from Eclipse, a show staged in complete darkness at the 2011 Manchester International Festival.

  • A Room for London: Laurie Anderson, Amadou & Mariam, David Byrne
    Thursday, January 12, 2012
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    Laurie Anderson, Amadou & Mariam, David Byrne to Perform Atop London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in "A Room for London"

    Laurie Anderson, Amadou & Mariam, and David Byrne will be among the artists performing in a riverboat lodged atop London's Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the Sounds from a Room series taking place in A Room for London, a one-bedroom installation on the roof of the Hall. Sounds from a Room includes live music webcasts from Anderson and Amadou & Mariam and a new soundwork for podcast from Byrne. The program is part of the London 2012 Festival, which also includes performances by Kronos Quartet and Rokia Traoré.

  • Amadou & Mariam: "Dougou Badia" [EP]
    Friday, January 6, 2012
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    Amadou & Mariam to Release New Album, "Folila," March 27; “Dougou Badia,” Featuring Santigold, Coming January 24 on Advance EP

    Amadou & Mariam are set to release Folila, their first studio album since Welcome to Mali, on March 27. The new album, helmed by longtime producer Marc-Antoine Moreau, epitomizes the duo's embrace of collaboration, with contributions by Santigold, TV on the Radio, Nick Zinner, Theophilus London, Bassekou Kouyate, and others. In advance of the full album, Nonesuch will release the track “Dougou Badia,” featuring Santigold, on a four-song digital EP of the same name on January 24; the EP is now available for pre-order in the Nonesuch Store.

  • Amadou & Mariam vertical w/white brick wall (Youri Lenquette)
    Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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    Video: Amadou & Mariam Talk with Difrent.org About Music As Means for Social Change

    Malian duo Amadou & Mariam are featured in the first installment of a video interview series from difrent.org, a new website dedicated to promoting music and culture as a means for social change. They talk with the site's founder, musician/activist Stephan Said, about the roots of social change in Malian music and how the universal language of music can break down barriers all over the world. "We have always sung for social change," says Amadou. Watch the interview here.

  • Amadou & Mariam square multi-pattern (Youri Lenquette)
    Thursday, April 14, 2011
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    Amadou & Mariam Named UN Ambassadors Against Hunger

    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that Amadou & Mariam have been appointed Ambassadors against Hunger to raise awareness among Europeans of the problem of global hunger and efforts by WFP and the European Union to combat it. The duo has just returned from Haiti, where they visited WFP projects funded by the EU and performed a concert with Haitian musicians.

  • Amadou & Mariam: "Remixes"
    Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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    Amadou & Mariam Release "Remixes" Album Exclusively on iTunes

    Malian duo Amadou & Mariam release a 13-track digital album of remixes today, available exclusively in the US on iTunes. The Remixes collection features favorite singles from their best-selling albums Welcome to Mali and Dimanche à Bamako, along with several new versions, and some previously unreleased mixes, from across their catalog by what Pitchfork calls a "wonderfully random" group of collaborators. Highlights include new versions of the single "Sabali" by Miike Snow and French techno maestro Vitalic; and "Afrika" revisited by Bob Sinclar. 

  • Amadou & Mariam square multi-pattern (Youri Lenquette)
    Thursday, June 10, 2010
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    Amadou & Mariam to Perform at the World Cup Kick-Off Concert; Watch Live on Vevo.com

    Before World Cup football action begins tomorrow, Amadou & Mariam join Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Hugh Masekela, Soweto Gospel Choir, and others performing at the World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert at Orlando Stadium in Soweto today. It will be webcast live on vevo.com. "With Amadou & Mariam as cultural ambassadors from the continent to the rest of the world," says the Times of London, "Africa is truly spoiling us."

  • 2009 Best of NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe
    Monday, December 21, 2009
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    NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, MTV: Nonesuch Albums Among the Year's Best

    Two New York Times music critics have Nonesuch albums on their Top Ten lists: Rokia Traoré's Tchamantché and Oumou Sangare's Seya. The Washington Post has Alarm Will Sound's a/rhythmia in its Top Ten classical albums; the Denver Post has Richard Goode and John Adams. Two Boston Globe critics have Wilco (the album) on their lists, while others there add BlakRoc and Seya. MTV includes Wilco plus Amadou & Mariam's Welcome to Mali. PopMatters and American Songwriter cite Wilco as well, while the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle lists Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi.

  • 2009 Best of WSJ, Sunday Times, TONY, WNYC
    Friday, December 18, 2009
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    Several Nonesuch Artists Make Year and Decade's Best Lists from Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, Time Out, WNYC

    The Wall Street Journal sees Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi as an example of "cause for optimism" in music this year. The Sunday Times places Amadou & Mariam's Dimanche à Bamako among the best pop/rock music of the '00s. Time Out includes Oumou Sangare's Seya and Christina Courtin's debut among the year's best albums and NYC performances by Toumani Diabaté and Wilco among the year's best shows. In "a phenomenal decade for world music," says WNYC, Ali Farka Touré's Savane is among the decade's best, with Youssou N'Dour's Egypt at No. 1.

  • Amadou & Mariam Obama Nobel Concert 2009
    Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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    Amadou & Mariam Meet President Barack Obama, Perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo

    When President Barack Obama was in Oslo last week to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, he took time to meet Malian duo Amadou & Mariam. The couple went on to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo Friday night. "We were proud to represent Africa during the Nobel Peace Prize celebrations," they say, "and it was a great honor to have met President Barack Obama." The Philadelphia Inquirer names the couple's "deliriously ebullient" Welcome to Mali among the year's best; TIME names the album opener, "Sabali," one of the year's best songs.

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