Malian gem-strummers Amadou and Mariam will be embarking on their first North American tour since 2009. The duo will be accompanied by a seven-piece backing band as they make stop in US/Canada main cities and festivals. Watch our behind-the-scenes video and interview with Amadou & Mariam plus Tv on the Radio at the set of their video for “Wily Kataso”. See tour dates below.
Amadou & Mariam North American Tour
07-31 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
08-01 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
08-03 Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
08-04 New York, NY – Central Park SummerStage
08-05 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08-06 Madison, WI – Capitol Theater Overture Center for the Arts
08-07 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
08-10 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands Festival
08-14 Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre *
08-16 Santa Monica, CA – Santa Monica Pier
Amadou and Mariam linked up with Fader TV for a stripped-down performance of two gems from Folila — out tomorrow on Nonesuch Records. It’s kind of a testament to the tunes’ strength, and the duo’s performance, that the songs’ vibrant warmth come through in a New York office and on what looks like a frigid winter day. Watch “Oh Amadou” and “Wily Kataso” above and below, and check out our own recent behind-the-scenes with Amadou & Marian plus TV on the Radio at their music video shoot.
Okayafrica TV was present for the shoot of Amadou and Mariam‘s latest music video for “Wily Kataso” at New York City’s burlesque venue The Box. We talked to the Malian duo about the meaning behind the song and sat down with track-collaborators Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone from TV on the Radio about their involvement in the project. Watch our exclusive behind-the-scenes video above and watch the official clip for “Wily Kataso” below. To see more great images from the set, peep this interview with video director Jennifer DeLia.
OKA TV video shot by Steven Schuerman, edited by Aubrey Murdock.
Amadou and Mariam visit The Guardian’s studios to perform “Wily Kataso,” a track featured on the Oh Amadou EP as well as the upcoming Folila LP, that they describe as being about “people who visit you at home, telling stories, speaking badly of other people, wasting your time.” Wily Kataso is what they call those types of people in Bambara. Watch the duo perform the track accompanied by a xylophonist above.
Amadou & Miriam will be filming a video shoot at NYC’s exclusive burlesque venue The Box with TV on the Radio‘s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone —who you might remember collaborated on the Malian duo’s upcoming album. Okayafrica has gotten VIP access to the exclusive video shoot, and we need EXTRAS who want to come behind-the-scenes and take part in the shooting of the video.
If you’d like to attend the shoot and be in the video as part of the live audience, email Julie at amadounmariamextras@gmail.com and attach a photo of yourself. You’ll need to be available to be at an exclusive venue in the LES from 2pm-10pm on Monday, February 6th. You’ll also be allowed and invited to stay for the FREE concert they’ll be giving after the video shoot!
ALSO, Amadou & Mariam and Tunde + Kyp will be performing a FREE INVITE ONLY concert after shooting the video in the evening. We have 30 FREE TICKETS (15 winners each with a +1) for a lucky few. All you have to do is enter the contest (below) and check your inbox on MONDAY MORNING (coming from okayafricacontest@gmail.com) — so don’t be giving us a fake e-mail!
The set will be at a chic and exclusive cabaret venue in the LES from 2-10pm. If you can come the entire shoot, thats great but if just for one half, that can work as well. We need quintessential, colorful, and real New Yorker characters who love culture, music, art, and letting go. As far as outward image, can be anything authentic, but please own it– whether a young professional type, or absolute artiste, or an exotic dancer, doesn’t matter — we’d love to see you come forward as whatever it is you dress as each day or whatever best represents your persona.
The video concept deals with dissolution of facades. The artists involved share a worldliness as well as an artfulness. The shoot includes an actual live performance by Amadou and Mariam alongside Kyp Malone from TV on the Radio. There is no pay for this one but it will be an absolutely unique and powerful experience as well as an amazing party.
Malian duo Amadou & Mariam are set to release Folila, the proper studio follow-up to 2008′s Welcome To Mali. The new LP, produced by Marc-Antoine Moreau, boasts contributions from Santigold, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, TV on the Radio, Theophilus London and Malian veteran Bassekou Kouyate. In anticipation of the album, the duo have released Oh Amadou EP, which is out today. Preview the EP’s title track above (featuring Bertrand Cantat) and stream “Dougou Badia,” their collaboration with Santigold and Nick Zinner, below!
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>>>Stream: Amadou & Mariam “Dougou Badia ft. Santigold”
Last month we brought you some of the brilliant reincarnations of Amadou & Mariam‘s “Sabali” (the original was produced and co-written by Damon Albarn). Well, here’s another one. It’s a remix by Grey X Sage featuring Theophilus London (seen here in South Africa) of all people. If you can’t get enough of Amadou & Mariam, download their entire Remixes album that came out this year.
Amadou & Mariam North American Tour
Malian gem-strummers Amadou and Mariam will be embarking on their first North American tour since 2009. The duo will be accompanied by a seven-piece backing band as they make stop in US/Canada main cities and festivals. Watch our behind-the-scenes video and interview with Amadou & Mariam plus Tv on the Radio at the set of their video for “Wily Kataso”. See tour dates below.
Amadou & Mariam North American Tour
07-31 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
08-01 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
08-03 Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
08-04 New York, NY – Central Park SummerStage
08-05 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
08-06 Madison, WI – Capitol Theater Overture Center for the Arts
08-07 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
08-10 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands Festival
08-14 Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre *
08-16 Santa Monica, CA – Santa Monica Pier
* with Andrew Bird
(H/T P4K)