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Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia met at Mali’s Institute for the Young Blind in the late 1970s, and for the next couple decades made music in relative obscurity. Near the turn of the century, they began overlaying Malian traditional music with blues and rock styles, utilizing a dizzying array of instruments—balafon, calebasse, djembe, trumpet, harmonica, tabla,…