Bombino’s “Nomad” dominates Billboard World Music Charts at #1 – Four Star Rolling Stone Review

After an arduous past, Tuareg guitarist from Niger, Bombino, is dominating the world music charts in America. Named a “guitar hero”, his music symbolizes a call for freedom for the people of his country and sheds some light on the political turmoil occurring in his home country. Despite these struggles he expresses in his music, Bombino’s new Nonesuch Records debut album, Nomad, has earned the top spot on the Billboard World Music album chart, landing at #1 in its first week of release. The album, which has already received glowing reviews from NPR‘s All Things Considered (“a landmark in African rock music”) and the Los Angeles Times (for “anyone who has ever appreciated a master player make magic on a Fender”), among others, has now earned four stars in Rolling Stone.

Describing Bombino as “a firebrand guitarist from Niger,” reviewer Will Hermes writes in the magazine: “Bombino’s style is raw, spacious, tuneful, deeply hypnotic and remarkably fluid—even when he’s shooting rapid-fire notes, the effect is like ripples gently unfurling in a pond.”