CD Review: Oumou Sangare's Seya

It only took me about a month and a half to review Seya, the first CD in six years from Wassoulou singer Oumou Sangare. Usually, my (boring) process for writing a review is to play a CD a few times while I'm doing normal stuff (dishes, driving, etc.), and then sit down a final time and write the review while listening to the CD. The problem with Seya was that, even after listening to it a dozen times, I'd sit down to write, and end up just reading the liner notes and listening to it, over and over and over. Finally, I had to do something I never do: take notes (with a pen! Remember pens? They still exist!) and then turn the music off. Moral of the story? Seya is distractingly good, with outstanding replay value and really, really great liner notes. Have you heard it? What did you think? Leave a comment and let us know!