Although Maal’s music has embraced everything from electric bands to 70-piece orchestras, it is his intimate acoustic performances which, for many, properly encompass the very real contagious nature of Maal’s work. It is this raw emotional edge that is showcased on the eight tracks featured on this album.

We are offering an exclusive download of the track 'Koni' from the new album 'On The Road'. This track features Jamaican Guitar Legend Ernest Ranglin.

This track is taken from the new Live Acoustic Baaba Maal album 'On The Road'. The album features great live performances from the last 10 years.

You will already know that Baaba Maal is one of Africa’s true international stars, his extraordinary stature growing with each album in a global career that now stretches back some two decades.

That reputation has been forged not simply through the excellence of Maal’s studio recordings but also the compulsive and hypnotic qualities of his live performances.
His concerts have a rare ability to transcend cultures and expectations, a music simultaneously rooted in the ancient African soils while fuelled by the burgeoning vitality and sheer inventiveness of the continent’s people. Perhaps it was ever thus – two millennia ago a Roman historian remarked that “out of Africa, always something new”.

The clearest evidence of Maal’s remarkable shows comes with ‘Baaba Maal on the Road’, a selection of live performances collated from concerts around the world over the past ten years.