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Les Amazones d’Afrique : Kandia Kouyaté, Mamani Keita, Rokia Koné, Mariam Doumbia, Nneka, Mariam Koné, Marema, Mouneissa Tandina, Pamela Badjogo, Inna Modja. There are supergroups and then there are Les Amazones d’Afrique. An all-female collection of Malian musicians, a run-through of the singers alone confirms the quality and pedigree of this project. The group includes Mariam Doumbia, one half of that ever-excellent duo Amadou & Mariam, and a third Malian, Mamani Keita, a former singer with Salif Keita’s band and a progressive, future-facing artist in her own right. For devotees of that timeless, enchanting West African sound, the prospect of these three singers’ voices harmonising and intertwining with each other is like a birthday and Christmas rolled into one. This is a gift that will live long in the memory.