Djelimady Tounkara & Orchestre Super Rail Band - Allo Bamako

The Rail Band, first formed in 1970, is one of the most popular musical groups in the history of Malian music; the band was later known as Super Rail Band, Bamako Rail Band or, most comprehensively and formally, Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare, Bamako. Its fame was built upon the mid-20th century craze for latin -- especially Cuban -- jazz music which came out of Congo in the 1940s. The Rail Band was one of the first West African acts to combine this mature Afro-Latin sound with traditional instruments and styles. In their case, this was built upon the Mande Griot praise singer tradition, along with Bambara and other Malian and Guinean musical traditions. Their distinctive sound came from combining electric guitar and jazz horns with soaring Mandinka and Bamabara lyrical lines, African and western drums, and local instruments such as the Kora and the Balafon. At their height of fame in the 1970s, the Rail Band played to sold out venues and even stadia across West Africa, and launched solo careers for many of its members, including the legendary vocalist Salif Keita.



The Rail Band's lead singer in the 1970s was Salif Keita, who left the band to join the rival Super Ambassadeurs and then follow a successful solo career in 1982. The group soon became a training ground for many of Mali's most popular performers, like singer Mory Kanté and guitarist Kante Manfila. Guitarist Djelimady Tounkara has been a member of the band for most of its history. The band, changing personnel many times, continues to perform around the world.





I released this a few months ago on Demonoid.  As it seems uncertain whether Demonoid will ever re-appear I'm in the process of re-posting my releases to Pirate Bay.



A big thank you to those people who have kept seeding while Demonoid has been down.



Ripped from my new CD, perfect, pristine and never played.



Encoded to flac -5, all tracks accurately numbered, named and tagged. 



m3u playlist included



Scans:



High quality full size 300 dpi scan of foldout cover, ready to print.



Note for EAC fetishists and DAE religionists ;-)



Ripit is a secure ripper when used with cdparanoia v10.2 and an optical drive whose cache can be defeated (or of course a drive which does not cache digital audio). I have tested it (and many other Windows and UNIX CD rippers) and when the resulting flacs are decoded to wav they are bit for bit identical to those obtained by decoding flacs from error-free (and accuraterip checked) rips made with EAC (verified by md5sum check of the wavs). If this is not satisfactory please don't post to express a complaint, a question, your anxieties, or your beliefs.  Instead simply purchase the original CD. 



Burning:



Convert the flacs to wav: flac -d *.flac



cd.toc is a toc for perfect dao burning using cdrdao in GNU/Linux or Mac/Solaris/BSD etc. Recommended.



cdrdao write --device  --speed 4 cd.toc



(device is optional on a single optical drive system, speed is optional)



If your burner supports CD-Text the full CD-Text information contained in the cd.toc will be written to the CD.



cd.cue is a cue sheet for burning in Windows. (untested) 



Windows users can also use burnatonce to burn from cd.toc (after converting the flacs to wav). Should work on all versions of Windows, may be a problem with Vista's UAC (untested).