Dimanche à Bamako is the fourth album by Mali

Mali

Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

an duo Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia . The pair, known as "the blind couple from Mali" met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, and found they shared an interest in music...

 featuring, and produced by, French singer Manu Chao

Manu Chao

Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...

. It was released on the Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.-Company history:Nonesuch was founded in 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce "fine records at the same price as a trade paperback", which would be half the price of a normal LP...

 label on 2 August 2005.

The album features guests such as Ivorian

Côte d'Ivoire

The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

 reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 star Tiken Jah Fakoly

Tiken Jah Fakoly

Tiken Jah Fakoly is a reggae singer from Côte d'Ivoire.Tiken Jah was born into a family of griots and christened Doumbia Moussa Fakoly on June 23, 1968 in Odienné, north-western Côte d'Ivoire. He discovered reggae at an early age, assembling his first group, Djelys, in 1987...

 and Italian ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

/jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 trumpeter Roy Paci.

Background

French singer Manu Chao

Manu Chao

Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...

 heard Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia . The pair, known as "the blind couple from Mali" met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, and found they shared an interest in music...

's music on the radio and decided that he wanted to work with them.

Reception

In a review for Allmusic, Chris Nickson gave the album a star rating of four out of five. Joe Tangari of Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...

 gave the album a rating of 8 out of 10 and said that "it would be a crime if it didn't rocket Amadou & Mariam straight to stardom." Spin

Spin (magazine)

Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...

named the album the 33rd best album released in 2005. Mojo

Mojo (magazine)

MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...

's David Hutcheon gave the album a rating of four stars out of five.

The album won the BBC Awards for World Music Best Album Award 2006 and helped the duo win the African section of the same awards that year. It was also listed as one of Songlines'

Songlines (magazine)

Songlines is the name of a British based magazine launched in 1999 that covers music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, featuring artists from around the globe....

 10 best world music albums of the year.

Observer Music Monthly

The Observer

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 listed it as the 39th best album of the 2000s.

Track listing

1. "M'Bifé" (Mariam Doumbia, Manu Chao) — 2:11
2. "M'Bifé Balafon" (Manu Chao) — 1:58
3. "Coulibaly" (Amadou Bagayoko) — 3:18
4. "La Réalité" (Bagayoko) — 3:32
5. "Sénégal Fast Food" (Bagayoko, Chao, Doumbia) — 4:19
6. "Artistiya" (Doumbia) — 3:11
7. "La Fête au Village" (Bagayoko) — 4:11
8. "Camions Sauvages" (Bagayoko, Chao, Doumbia) — 4:08
9. "Beaux Dimanches" (Bagayoko) — 3:31
10. "La Paix" (Bagayoko) — 4:19
11. "Djanfa" (Bagayoko, Chao, Doumbia) — 4:13
12. "Taxi Bamako" (Chao) — 3:44
13. "Politic Amagni" (Bagayoko, Chao, Ousmane Cissé, Tiemoko Traoré) — 4:56
14. "Gnidjougouya" (Doumbia) — 3:45
15. "M'Bifé Blues" (Chao, Doumbia) — 5:21

Personnel

Music

• Nicolas Auriauit — trumpet
• Amadou Bagayoko — guitar, vocals
• Samou Bagayoko — choir
• Manu Chao
  Manu Chao
  Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...
  
   — guitar, vocals, choir
• Ousmane Cissé — choir
• Boubacar Dembele — djembe
  Djembe
  A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....
  
  
• Mariam Doumbia — vocals, choir
• Roberto Shilling Pollo Duarte — piano
• Tiken Jah Fakoly
  Tiken Jah Fakoly
  Tiken Jah Fakoly is a reggae singer from Côte d'Ivoire.Tiken Jah was born into a family of griots and christened Doumbia Moussa Fakoly on June 23, 1968 in Odienné, north-western Côte d'Ivoire. He discovered reggae at an early age, assembling his first group, Djelys, in 1987...
  
   — vocals
• Laurent Griffon — bass
• Stéphane Hamokrane — choir
• Alain Hatot — clarinet, flute, baritone saxophone
• Pierre Hauthe — trombone
• Renaud Lacoche — saw
  Musical saw
  A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is the application of a hand saw as a musical instrument. The sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin...
  
  
• Loïc Landois — harmonica
• Cédric Lesouquet — double bass
• Ibrahim Maalouf
  Ibrahim Maalouf
  Ibrahim Maalouf is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and trumpet instructor. He was born in Beirut and now lives in France.-Biography:...
  
   — trumpet
• François Regis Matuszenski — keyboards
• Roy Paci — trumpet
• Stephane San Juan — drums, tabla
  Tabla
  The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
  
  
• Philippe Teboul — percussion
• Tiemoko Traoré — choir

Production

• Philippe Avocat — assistant
• Manu Chao — programming, producer, engineer, editing
• Tony Cousins — mastering
• Antoine Halet — engineer
• Laurent Jaïs — engineer, mixing
• Marc Antoine Moreau — engineer, executive producer, artistic director
• Jean-Loup Morette — assistant

Design

• Marie Laure Dagnaux — photography

Charts

Album

Chart	Peak position
Belgian Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...  (Flanders)	70
Belgian Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...  (Wallonia)	14
Dutch Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...	93
French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	2
Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	28
Swiss Albums Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...	39

Singles

Year	Title	Chart peak positions
		BEL Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization...	FRA Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	SWI Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....
2005	"La Réalité"	—	—	73
	"Sénégal Fast Food"	30	28	—
	"Beaux Dimanches"	—	48	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.