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Page 3 of 5 Soul Connection The Merrimack Current, townonline.com
By J. C. Lockwood - Friday, June 13, 2003
..."The Mamadou sound itself is hard to peg: The band performs original music that combines African rhythms and lyrics with western musical influences, making it world beat in the largest sense of the term. For example, Daouda Sane, a song about the connection between man and nature ("We are all a part of nature," Mamadou says, "but we sometimes lose the connection. Daouda Sané can bring us back to nature, or nature back to us.") is based on a traditional Senegalese chant with original music and lyrics added by Mamadou"...
..."But the studio albums are tame by comparison to the live sessions.... It's harder, edgier and more energetic, a complete change in the sonic direction of the band. Then Mamadou will, with a wave of the hand, stop all of the music except for the drumming, giving listeners a crash-bang lesson in the fundamentals of his music"...
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