Cuba · Music
Maravillas de Mali
Las Maravillas de Mali · 1971
Malian musicians sent to Havana in the 1960s returned with charanga arrangements layered onto Mande melodies, executing the same triangular cultural traffic Astatke performed between Boston, London, and Addis. The album is sister artifact to Mulatu of Ethiopia, recorded in the same window of postcolonial musical optimism.