JazzTimes (10/95, p.158) - "...straightforward, yet rich and rhythmic ensemble setting....liberally lined with purposeful improvisation,...rewarding, acoustic-inclined listening. The group tills an ancient musical soil of West Africa, by way of the world."
Option (3-4/96, p.100) - "...Toumani Diabate plays the kora with the fiery energy and passionate outbursts of a flamenco guitar..."
Personnel: Toumani Diabate (kora); Basekou Kouyate (ngoni); Keletigui Diabate (balafon); Dian Diarra (kamalengoni); Danny Thompson, Javier Colina (bass).
Engineers: Dave Young, Stephen Owen.
Recorded at Studio Madeleine, Brussels, Belgium; The Church Studio and Maida Vale Studio, London, England in December 1993.
All songs written by Toumani Diabate.