"The much-respected Zani Diabate (...), the guitarist of the Super Djata Band, remembered well for their blistering appearances in the late '80s in Europe (and one eponymous record on Mango), is renowned for his progressive gritty and angular pentatonic guitar style, influenced by his griot upbringing and education ... Here, on these last recordings, the same spirit and musicality of those live '80s shows pervades: Zani's groove factor is to the fore as ever. The musicianship is assured; shifting empos and rolling rhythmic drive, call-and-response vocals, chiming melodic riffs cut with Zani's bold and dazzling solos. These tracks still stand head and shoulders above the masses, capturing a fiery brilliance sadly gone".
