Trying to get a handle on this group's discography is challenging. They put out two albums in 1977 on the Mali Kundan (Mali Stars?) label. Both have the same title as this, and the same image and graphics, the first one being blue like this one and the second one being orange. Well, I guess those two are technically self-titled and this one is called "Anthology" because it has all the songs from the orange one and all the songs except two from the blue one, "Garan" and "Babu." I've listened to both of those missing songs on YouTube and can see why they were left off to keep this at a single CD. To complicate matters further, there is also a later release called Belle Epoque that is the orange album with an epic 15 minute track from the blue one added on ("Nyangaran Foli"). They also have a release called Afro Jazz du Mali from 1986 which I will review shortly.
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