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The Africa Express diary: this train is bound for glory

4248 days ago

Guardian Music — My week of making music with a whole world of musiciansDay 1Walking into the first rehearsal I didn't realise this was really the start of my "favourite week ever'' (which, if my wife asks, was our honeymoon). I managed to miss the train's departure ... more info

Africa Express – review

4250 days ago

Guardian Music — The Ritz, ManchesterBy the time the train arrived in Manchester at 5.50pm on Wednesday – a collective of more than 80 musicians on board their own specially chartered vehicle – one anxiety was that the evening's show would be too slick an affair.... more info

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Africa Express provides a moveable platform

4254 days ago

Guardian Music — Train hired by musicians' collective including Baaba Maal and Jupiter Bokondji embarks on tour of British cities by railThe train ready for departure from Euston station at 11.30am on Sunday wasn't the usual Virgin service to Stoke-on-Trent.For one t... more info

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Watch Africa Express at Glastonbury 2007 – video

4255 days ago

Guardian Music — The musical collective known as Africa Express played its first-ever proper gig at the Glastonbury festival in 2007. Here is Algerian singer Rachid Taha covering the Clash's Rock the Casbah with Damon Albarn, Billy Bragg, Baaba Maal and more more info

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Baaba Maal: 'It's a crazy project, but exciting'

4262 days ago

Guardian Music — The Senegalese star on his hopes for the Africa Express tour, featuring 80 musicians on one train as it makes a string of stops across the UKSenegalese singer Baaba Maal has long been one of Africa's most critically acclaimed and well-known musicians... more info

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Africa Express: a magical mystery tour

4262 days ago

Guardian Music — Eighty musicians, one train and a string of stops across Britain. This could be the most extraordinary tour of the year…It's late afternoon in west London and the Senegalese star Baaba Maal and Damon Albarn, from nearby in the neighbourhood, are lo... more info

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Tony Allen and Rizzle Kicks join Damon Albarn's Africa Express

4273 days ago

Guardian Music — Artists will cross the UK by train in September for a concert series featuring music from Europe, America and AfricaTony Allen, Rizzle Kicks, Carl Barât and electronic wunderkind Nicolas Jaar are among the acts to have now climbed aboard the Africa ... more info

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Names announced for the African Express

4287 days ago

Guardian Music — Baaba Maal, Damon Albarn and Bombay Bicycle are among the lineup of musicians who will tour the UK by train in SeptemberReading this on mobile? Click her to view videoThe collective of African and western musicians known as Africa Express has reveale... more info

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Baaba Maal and friends – review

4289 days ago

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonSenegalese musician Baaba Maal made the first sounds on the almost empty stage: spluttering fireworks of guitar notes that became the gentle, loping pattern for his song Danibe. Noumoucounda Cissokho added decorative kora.... more info

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BT River of Music, Africa and Americas stages – review

4295 days ago

Guardian Music — Various venues, LondonLondon Pleasure Gardens was a curiously bleak location for an ambitious pre-Olympic celebration: a gravel wasteland alongside an abandoned flour mill on the river's edge. It looked more like the set of a gritty movie than a conc... more info

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The Africa Express diary: this train is bound for glory

Africa Express – review

Africa Express provides a moveable platform

Watch Africa Express at Glastonbury 2007 – video

Baaba Maal: 'It's a crazy project, but exciting'

Africa Express: a magical mystery tour

Tony Allen and Rizzle Kicks join Damon Albarn's Africa Express

Names announced for the African Express

Baaba Maal and friends – review

BT River of Music, Africa and Americas stages – review

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