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Baaba Maal Television Remix competition - deadline 22nd October

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To celebrate Baaba Maal's release of his album Television, the record label Palm Pictures in association with Giant Step are running an international remix competition with the first prize of $300 plus an eight week electronic music production course and a Palm Pictures cd and dvd bundle. The second and third prizes are pretty good too. Open the article for more details. Read more »

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Playlist | 27th May 2009

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Album of the Week : Television from Baaba Maal on Palm Pictures.

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Jill Turner switches on the Television and reviews Baaba Maal's latest album. Baaba Maal is a traveller not only with his United Nations work but as a season ticket holder onboard the Africa Express. He stole the show with a sensational appearance as part of this year’s UK African Soul Rebels tour and was recently invited as a guest on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in March. By now, we were beside ourselves with anticipation of his new album, it’s been a long time, eight years in fact since Missing You. Yes we have been, but now the new album is here, will Television be the album to divide opinion ?

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Baaba Maal new release, Television on Palm Pictures.

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News in from Palm Pictures "I think the musicians role is to give advice, to warn people, and to make them aware of whet they might not have though of themsleves. We use melodies and harmonies to make songs enter your mind." So declares the celebrated Senegalese master musician Baaba Maal of the songs on Television, his new multilingual album released on June 1st on Palm Pictures. Read more »

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28th May 2009:
Baaba Maal, Yusuf Islam double bill join Island Records 50 years celebration

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Part of the Island 50 years celebrations sees Baaba Maal and Yusuf Islam playing Shepherds Bush Empire. Also on the bill is Noxshi and the concert will be used to support Amnesty International and The Oracabessa Foundation in Jamaica. Read more »

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Baaba Maal tops the Independent's 10 best world music albums

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baaba maal At a time when cd sales are slow, fortune may well be shining on the record labels whose artists have been nominated by Tim Walker in the Independent Newspaper's top 10 world music albums. Top of the list is a compilation of live cuts from Baaba Maal.

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