Music is also the passing on of traditions. For Mali, with its ancient culture of griots, this is perhaps more true than any other country. At Maciré, Boubacar Traoré collaborates with the younger artists Baba Sissoko and Habib Koité. Koité in particular has been quite successful in recent years with his bare bluesy music. Boubacar Traoré did not have such successes for a long time. Traoré
… was one of Mali's forgotten troubadours. After a brief local success in the 1960s, the singer / guitarist migrated to France where he worked in construction. Maciré is a calm album with a leading role for the acoustic guitar and Traoré's beautiful, lived-in voice. In the lyrics, the singer sings about the ups and downs of his life: the death of his wife, migration, deceit, a tribute to a deceased friend. Traoré's life was not always easy, but he knows how to convert it into beautiful, inspired music, which is unmistakably Malian. (PdK)more
