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When you’ve recorded a classic album that has won awards and dominated the charts, there’s usually plenty of agonised soul-searching about how to follow it up. Not for Amadou & Mariam, whose new album ‘Welcome To Mali’ builds expansively and freely on the opportunities presented by the phenomenal success of ‘Dimanche à Bamako’ (‘Sunday in Bamako’) to reach thrilling new heights of musical creativity.