Vendredi at Volume 5

It's been a while since I posted anything for VV5. This isn't much of a video, but the song is nice. Another Malian! Enjoy

Vendredi at Volume 5

The majority of my favorite African music comes from Mali, although I have no idea why this is the case. Although this song and video are about Senegal, the artists are Malian. They're a married couple named Amadou et Mariam, both of whom are blind. Some people may recognize in this song the influence of Manu Chao, who produced the album on which this song appeared: Dimanche a Bamako.

Vendredi at Volume 5

Because of travel and other work related headaches I didn't get a chance to post last week's installment of Vendredi at Volume 5. I'm terribly sorry to have deprived you of the pleasure. I'll try to get back to regular posting sometime soon, but in the meantime here's this week's clip. This video is of higher quality than I'd usually like to post. It looks like they may have hired an actual film crew with adequate equipment rather than just placed a video camera on a tripod, which is my preferred method of shooting a video in the third world. Anyway, this song is huge right now. You hear it several times per night in the dance clubs here. Other than the fact that it's Ivoirian I don't know much about the song or the singer.

Hope everybody had a happy thanksgiving!

Vendredi at Volume 5

Sometimes it's hard not to get carried away with posting videos on your blog. I feel like I've exercised a lot of restraint up to this point, but no more! Today I'm officially announcing a new Angler's Rest feature, Vendredi at Volume 5. Volume 5 was the name of a watering hole in Madagascar where clients were treated to an inexhaustible supply of the local (and some international) music videos. From now on, Friday will be my designated day for posting the songs and videos I'm just dying to share.

The inaugural installment features a good friend from Madagascar, Lien Bouessa. A single blog post couldn't do justice to what a great guy this is. Really talented, smart, thoughtful, and always the life of the party. This video is full of people and places I knew well.

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