Bombino: Azel review – desert blues hybrid more efficient than exciting

(Partisan) Bombino is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Niger, with his own take on desert blues. He has a rock-star image and sets out to target indie-rock fans as well as African music devotees. There’s nothing wrong with that, as new fusion exponents from Songhoy Blues to Vieux Farka Touré have proved, and he’s a rousing live performer. But his recordings are far less exciting. His last album, produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, was pleasant but unremarkable, and this new se...

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