Consumer Guide Album

The Rail Band: Rail Band 3: Dioba [Belle Epoque, 2009]
Figure the final volume is odds and ends. Mory Kante's embrace of rumba is relaxed and weird, his stab at Afrobeat merely spacy. Makan Ganessy will lose you everywhere but the entranced "Mady Guindo"; Salif Keita will make life worth living on "Maki" even if "Soyomba" then disappoints. The first three tracks on Disc 1 wander toward obscure destinations. The last two tracks on Disc 2 reach better places faster, harder, and in different rhythms. B+