National Geographic Music (National Geographic)

Dust and dry wood - one minute parched, desolate, empty, the next peopled with improbable vocal harmonies and generous layers of kora and ngoni, the music of Mansour Seck reaps the maximum effect from its slow-building dramas. Voices, harsh and gentle, slice through the air like blades or breathe laments, supported by the sensitive atmospheric fingertips of Seck. Insistent guitar rhythms sneak up from behind, winding up into a full-blown hypnotic groove - the perfect setting for three exceptional voices - Mansour Seck, Baaba Maal and Ousmane Hamady Diop.

— CalabashMusic.com