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She has toured Britain on the Africa Express train, stopping off around the country for concerts that included collaborations with Damon Albarn as well as Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones, who joined her backing band for the London finale. I was curious about it, but not sure about getting what I was imagining.

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But over the past year it has slipped into political chaos, with the President overthrown in a military coup in the capital, and rebel groups taking over large sections of the north of the country. The rebels then splintered into different factions, with those initially fighting for independence in the north usurped by extremist Islamist groups, some linked to al-Qaeda, and who went on to ban music in the areas they controlled.

Military forces from France, Mali, and other African nations have fought to repel these advances. After all, she was not a griot, from a family of traditional musicians, but the daughter of a diplomat. The piece premiered in Vienna in the summer of and received its New York premiere at Lincoln Center that fall; its UK premiere was at the Barbican in London in the summer of She will be touring Europe in May, performing in Desdemona in Amsterdam and Naples in June, then returning to Europe at the end of June for what promises to be a memorable treatment of the new songs from Beautiful Africa during a run of summer festivals, including Glastonbury and Roskilde.

Robin Denselow.