African music, specially coming from West Africa, but always with the blues soul and spirit Markus James is a roots music and Mali folk music expert, so he goes deeper into that conceptual acoustic world along some well structures songs with an hypnotic trace, using repetitive chorus, such as in Are You Ready song, among other similar ones The whole cd brings magic and mystery along the fifteen songs included on it A fascinating musical exercise, where shaman’s alchemy and other esoteric elements get shape and become reality by listeners senses Markus James is surrounded by a bunch of African musicians such as Mamadou Sidibe, Marieme Billel, Amadou Camara, Bolokada CondeHamma Sankare, Mme Gasso, Mme Claque, Mama Sissoko or Vieux Farka Toure Bambara among others A perfect album devoted to all World Music lovers