Thanks to their leader’s experience, the Djata Band quickly rose to fame within the Bamako region. Despite the lack of official support, Djata Band started to record their compositions under the aegis of expert engineer Boubacar Traor’ at Radio Mali’s tiny recording studio. By the end of the 1970s, the band’s repertoire was already very large and diverse. Their first album was released through the Discorama record label in Abidjan. Like several other Malian artists of the early 1980s, Super Djata’s only outlet for their material lay in some Ivorian record company.Bringing together bambara traditions, Wasulu hunter music, Kenedugu’s balafon music and bozo fishermendances, mandingo chants and fula repertoire, mixed with a spicy, and at times even psychedelic guitar, Zani Diabat’s Super Djata Band came to the forefront of the emerging world music scene in the early 1980’s as one of Mali’s strongest bands.