Sabali

While strains of the album's single, "Sabali" - one of a handful of tracks on the album produced by Damon Albarn (of Blur and Gorrilaz) - echoed down the sleek silver hallway leading to the shiny new Cooper Square hotel bar in New York, I sat down with them to chat about music and Mali (via a Because-supplied translator).

VF Daily Alexandra Marvar 2009

But instead, attend to a joyous keyboards of manuscript opener "Sabali" or a funky meter of "Sebeke" as good as try to tell me this isn't an manuscript for all people, everywhere.

The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery admin 2009

But instead, attend to a joyous keyboards of manuscript opener "Sabali" or a funky meter of "Sebeke" as good as try to tell me this isn't an manuscript for all people, everywhere.

Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

Their seventh album (with lead track "Sabali" written by Albarn) might change that.

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(Soundbite of song, "Sabali") Unidentified Person: (Singing in Foreign Language) CHRISTGAU: Well, you could say what's African about that?

Amadou And Mariam: Well Beyond Mali 2009

(Soundbite of song, "Sabali") Unidentified Person: (Singing in Foreign Language) CHRISTGAU: Well, you could say what's African about that?

Amadou And Mariam: Well Beyond Mali 2009

The opening track, "Sabali," produced by Damon Alburn of the electro group Gorillaz, is spine-tingling, and makes you wish Alburn had stuck around for the whole session.

Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010

The song is "Sabali," the Damon Albarn-produced opening on track off

CMJ New Music News 2009

The exchange worked, leading to two wildly different songs that Albarn worked on: the ethereal electro-pop "Sabali" as well as the, politically charged "Ce n'Est Pa Bon."

CMJ New Music News 2009

Their seventh album (with lead track "Sabali" written by Albarn) might change that.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009