'Tales From Monographic Oceans': an improvised journey in a stretch of sea, cutting through the isthmuses of some discographies (Mama Africa 35, 28) 'Balkan Music has pissed us off, it's beautiful and all that but in the long run...'. Instead, African music does not. Never. For a brief backward excursion into the Dark Continent, at the foot of the exceptional music to which everyone owes due respect, not to mention devotion. Because, like it or not, we are, for the most part, if not entirely, its children. 25. Ali Farka Tourè & Toumani Diabatè Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté - Ruby