The presidential election will hopefully restore stability in Mali, a country battered by a coup and the rebel Islamist takeover of the north, where the upheavals have been reflected in passionate new music from Bassekou Kouyate and Rokia Traoré. Now comes the response from Vieux Farka Touré, son of the great Ali Farka Touré. He has developed his own style by playing electric guitar and mixing African and western influences, but he reacts to the events in "my country" with a return to his acoustic roots. He celebrates Malian music first with a traditional song, and then revives his father's Safare, which sets the mood for his own elegant desert blues. His dad was famous for his duets with kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté, and the finest track here is Vieux's duet with Toumani's kora-playing son, Sidiki, on the gently elaborate and stately instrumental Peace.