Africando is an Afro-latino band, in which African singers play music together with Latin musicians from New York. The addition All Stars to the album Mandali is no exaggeration. The New York salsa band led by Boncana Maiga accompanies a wide variety of singers: in addition to the regular Africando singers Medoune Diallo, Ronnie Baro and Gnonnas Pedro, the African voices of Salif Keita, Koffi Olomide,
… Thione Seck, Amadou Balake, Lokua Kanza and Skouba Bambino sound. as well as the voices of Haitian singer Shoubou and Puerto Rican salsero Hector Casanova. Mandali is a great-sounding album full of catchy, swinging music from African-Latin soil. (SvdP)more
