SMOD: SMOD - review

(Because Music)Five years ago, when I visited Amadou and Mariam at their home in Bamako, I was approached by their son Sam, who asked me onto the roof to listen to some songs he had been working on with his friends. Now they have recorded them, and SMOD (which stands for Sam and his friends Mouzy, Ousco and Dronsky, but is now a trio following Mouzy's departure) have their first international release. It's an intriguing, varied and highly original fusion set, matching Sam's confident acoustic gu...

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