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MMUSICMAG.COMNOVEMBER 2012 ISSUE

NOVEMBER 2012 M MUSIC & MUSICIANS MAGAZINE

HABIB KOITE AND ERIC BIBBBrothers in Bamako

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“Tombouctou” is your standard wandering

blues—American bluesman Bibb and West

Africa’s Koite have simply wandered very

far afield. They’re caravanning through Mali,

tracing the roots of modern music, and as with

the other 12 songs, they hit on something

fluid, uplifting and beyond time and place.

‘As Bibb and Koite caravan through Mali, tracing the

roots of modern music—they hit on something fluid,

uplifting and beyond time and place.’