"Mamadou attacks the strings with passion and his fingers fly. To me he is a superior talent and I would rank him above Foday Musa Suso or his famous cousin Toumani Diabate...you just have to hear this album to realize he is a brilliant creative artist...It's all recorded in one take, without overdubbing, the liner assures us, because otherwise we wouldn't believe it, so sweeping is the flood of scales, the torrent of fluild riffs." - Alastair Johnston (link)




"The fine World Village label just released Douga Mansa, a lush new album by another respected Malian artist, Mamadou Diabate...His cascading kora notes on 'Bi Allah La Ke' put me in a seven-minute trance." - John Oseid (link)