Damon Albarn produces Amadou and MariamIt may not do much for their world music cred cred Noun Slang short for credibility Noun 1. cred - credibility among young fashionable urban individuals street cred, street credibility , but it can't hurt with the indie kids. For their new single, Malian pop duo Amadou Am´a`dou n. 1. A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. and Mariam have tossed out Manu Chao Manu Chao (born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao on June 21, 1961 in Paris, France) is a French-born and raised singer from Spanish origins (mainly Galician and Basque). He sings in French, Spanish, Arabic, Galician, Catalan, English, Portuguese, and Italian. - who produced their last album - and brought in Damon Albarn. As all is quiet with Blur, Gorillaz and the Good, the Bad and the Queen, Albarn has turned to producing world music records ? manning the decks on Sabali, the first single from Amadou and Mariam's forthcoming album, Welcome to Mali. The album is a less interestingly named follow-up to Dimanche a Bamako, one of the feel-good hits of 2005. With that record, Amadou and Mariam collected the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Radio 3 Award for world music album of the year. Maybe this time they're hoping for an NME NME Name NME Enemy NME New Musical Express NME Neisseria Meningitidis NME New Molecular Entities (US FDA New Drug Approval reports) NME Network Management Ethernet NME New Music Express cover. Along with Albarn, Welcome to Mali includes performances by Canadian rapper K'Naan, blues-funk singer Keziah Jones, and Toumani Diabate - famous not just for his sparkling kora playing but for his collaborations with Bj?rk and, yes, you guessed it, Damon Albarn. Albarn worked with several Malian musicians on 2002's aptly named Mali Music album. Welcome to Mali is out November 17, to be preceded on October 22 and 23 by two Africa Express concerts in London, part of Albarn's continuing series bringing together African and Western musicians. 
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