Baaba Maal and friends – review

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. Then the man standing silently behind them twisted and turned his body into a solo dance, an elegant physical expression of Maal's spellbinding lead vocal.Three hours later, the hall was jumping, and the stage was packed with a brassy, percussion-...

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