MUSIC . Music Picks

Amadou and Mariam

Tue., June 9, 8 p.m., $30-$40, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

Published: Jun 2, 2009

african/pop

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Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have traveled a long way from the spare guitar-and-vocals Malian blues they began playing together three decades ago. If their 2005 international breakthrough, Dimanche a Bamako, was audibly abetted by producer Manu Chao's winning but slightly anodyne brand of burbling ethno-pop, this year's unassumingly titled Welcome to Mali (released here on Nonesuch) finds the couple even more resolutely open-eared and playful, unafraid of getting their hands dirty integrating strains of reggae, hip-hop and electronica into its utterly modern African pop melange.

 

Tue., June 9, 8 p.m., $30-$40, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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