1.Saramaya		5:40
2.Mousso Kelen		6:00
3.Afro Blues	3:50
4.Félenko		7:48
5.Café Café		4:57
6.Tankadi		3:48
7.Soumbara		5:50
8.Gonga		3:36
9.Kankalabé		5:46
10.African Groove		3:37
11.Djérélélé		4:37

Mamadou Barry - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Mamadou Diabate - guitar
Malick Conde - guitar
Mohamed Kouyate - bass
Ibrahima “Rizo” Bangoura - vocals
Lamine Conde - djembe
Emile Biayenda - percussion
Ansoumane Kaloga - drums

Saxophonist Mamadou Barry hails from Guinea in West Africa. ‘Tankadi’ is a fine Afro Jazz track with Hi Life flavours and there is a great take on ‘Afro Blue’. The album’s African influences are strong and diverse with elements of Afro Beat, Manu Dibango style Funk and Hi Life. Delightful and a tad different. ---soulbrother.com

Saxophonist Mamadou Barry is one of those West African golden age musicians who keeps going like the Energizer bunny. He’s best known for Kaloum Star, a jazzy, hard-driving, criminally under-appreciated band that he founded in Conakry in 1969. He’s also worked with the female orchestra Les Amazones De Guinee and briefly with the granddaddy of Guinee’s national orchestras, Bembeya Jazz. With little fanfare he released his debut solo album in 2009 and here’s its excellent follow-up. This band is a bit more mannered than Kaloum Star, which was thrilling in the way it sounded like it could run off the rails at any time; the playing here is solid, with strong jazz and R&B influences. Track 1 kicks things off in a cool Afro-funk vein; 2 and 4 marry classic Bembeya-style grooves with pop-slap bass flourishes and some tasty sax and flute playing. The Afro Groove Gang is as fluent in salsa Senegalaise as in funk and jazz – 5 sounds like an unknown track from the Orchestra Baobab catalog. And 8 is West African neo-traditional music played straight, without the Western flavorings. This album kept a smile on my face from beginning to end. ---globalagogo.com

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01.Niyo 06:49
02.Sodia 04:32
03.Africa Five 05:48
04.Tala 06:03
05.Sumbouya 05:57
06.Sedy 03:06
07.Barry Swing 07:00
08.Bike Magnin 06:59
09.Nene 08:30

Mamadou Barry (flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone)
Missia Saran, Sia Tolno (chant)
Mamadou Camara (guitar)
Papa Kouyate (djembe)

Mamadou Barry belongs to a generation of musicians who grew up in a country where culture was wielded as a political instrument in post-independence days. Music played a significant role in forging national pride and the Guinean government financed the setting up of a national label, Syliphone, to record the growing band of national and federal orchestras. Interestingly enough, musicians were also financed by the state in those days, drawing regular salaries like other civil servants.

"Maître" Barry - so called because of his short career as a school teacher - began conducting Kaloum Star (a federal orchestra from Conakry) in 1969. The orchestra recorded a first LP in 1973 which was followed by a number of singles. Kaloum Star, who eventually released their official debut CD album in 1996, put themselves on the music map by modernising Mandingo folk sounds and opening traditional music up to jazz and Afro-beat.

Niyo taps into much the same vein, the sleeve notes proclaiming that Mamadou Barry's debut album is "to be filed under: Africa / cool grooves." Barry, considered by many as a worthy heir to Momo Wandel (a saxophonist whose vibrant swing style made a legendary impact on the Guinean music scene) also makes a point of bringing jazz home to Africa on his solo debut.

On the vibrant Africa Five, "Master" Barry puts his own definitive spin on Take Five (a classic jazz piece originally recorded by the American pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet half a century ago now.) Then his sax slips into a different mode on Sumbouya, accompanying the raw, emotional vocals of the young Guinean songstress Sia Tolno. Two of Guinea's finest female voices - Sény Malomou and Missia Saran - step behind the microphone on Sodia and Bikè Magnin while the kora-player Kélontan Cissoko steps centre stage on the final track, Néné, to sing "Maître" Barry's praises griot-style. With its clever alternation of songs and instrumental tracks, Niyo strikes a thoroughly seductive balance. ---Bertrand Lavaine, rfimusique.com

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