Boulevard De L'independance

Toumani Diabate releases his most extraordinary album yet - a super-charged, traditional-meets-modern dance-band album, 'Boulevard De L' Indpendance' unites the two sides of this remarkable musical personality - the virtuosic traditionalist and the restless innovator - in one seething pot of rhythm. Recorded in a fortnight of all-night sessions at Bamako's Hotel Mand, this album packs the fruit of ten years experimentation into some of the densest, punchiest, most richly textured music you'll ever hear.