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Reviews: All About Jazz BBC Music The Guardian
Personnel: Ali Farka Touré (guitar, vocal on Debe, Ai Ga Bani); Toumani Diabaté (kora); Ry Cooder (Kawai piano on Mamadou Boutiquier,Ai Ga Bani, Ripley guitar on Hawa Dolo); Sekou Kanté (bass guitar on Ai Ga Bani, Soumbou Ya Ya, Naweye Toro); Orlando "Cachaíto" López (bass pn Gomni, Hawa Dolo); Joachim Cooder (percussion on Mamadou Boutiquier, Kaira, Gomni); Olalekan Babalola (percussion on Monsieur le Maire de Niafunké, Gomni); James Thompson (shaker on Kaira)