Samba

"Ten new songs (...) performed in a wide range of settings, from a full electric band with drumkut and Vieux's electric guitar screaming in the way that, on his early recordings, earned him the rather tiresome "Hendrix of the Sahara" tag, through to others where the acoustic guitar is played against the tippy-tappy sound of fingers on a hloowed calabash. Perhaps the most interesting track is where both elements show, as on "Maya" where the singing is set against delicious fills on the n'goni by Maffa Diabaté and then the scoustic sounds segue into an electronic keyboards solo. Vieux Farka Touré continues to develop as a fine musician who is proving to be his own man and has found an interesting way of presenting his own music".