You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Perhaps in recent years, we grew guilty of rather taking for granted the special magic of Amadou & Mariam. Between 1998’s international debut Sou Ni Tile and 2017’s La Confusion they released eight studio albums, and in addition we were treated to reissues of their early cassette albums recorded while the blind Malian duo were residents in Cote d’Ivoire. They were all great, it goes without saying, with 2004’s Manu Chao-produced, Grammy-nominated Dimanche à Bamako a career highlight. But the music press is forever lusting after the ‘next big thing’ and is oddly reluctant to allow any artist to settle into a groove once it becomes familiar, however mighty that groove might be. We demand ‘evolution’ and ‘innovation’ – and…