Kanawa

KanawaNahawa Doumbias new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the

she self-released her debut extended play

Patrick Hyland produced the album

that version used an altered track order

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a shared 2020 escape hatch amid breakups and lockdowns

Weir's fellow bandmates in the Grateful Dead back him on the album

Dubbed ÒThe Screaming Eagle of Soul

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The results are staggering

Mountain Man) and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig (Daughter of Swords

The album was later re-released via Bluurg

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