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Orchestra Baobab

Title: A Night at Club Baobab

Label: Oriki Music

Cat No:6129372
Format:CD

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From 1970 to 1979, Orchestra Baobab cheered up the Baobab night club located in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. Orchestra Baobab’s music stands as the soundtrack of that period, known as the Senghor years, in reference to Senegal’s former president. Issa Cissokho’s saxophone, Barthélemy Atisso’s guitar, Medoune Diallo, and the voices of Balla Sidibe & Thione Seck entertained the local elites throughout the seventies.

With a unique sound, Orchestra Baobab revolutionized Senegalese popular music by leaving behind afro-cuban influences for good. The musicians developed a hybrid music fed by diola, toucouleur, serere, Portuguese creole and malinke saps.

Orchestra Baobab’s trademark has since been a « polymorphic groove » that blends together sweetness & swing, groove & salsa. Quite exotic to foreign ears, the groove sounds familiar to lovers of African & African American music, an astonishing dance music with surprising originality.

These modern compositions, recorded in the 70’s, prefigure Orchestra Baobab’s recent worldwide success

Track Listing for A Night at Club Baobab
1 « Jin ma jin ma » (R. Gomis, N. Mbaye, B. Atisso)
2 « Diarabi » (B. Sissokho/folklore)
3 « Souleymane » (I. Cissokho)
4 « Cabral » (folklore)
5 « Saf Mana Dem » (M. Diallo)
6 « Kelen ati leen » (M. Diallo)
7 « Liti Liti » (B. Gueye /folklore)
8 « Seeri Koko » (folklore)
9 « Wango » (folklore)
10 « Fuutu Toro » (M. Diallo / B. Atisso)
11 « On verra (ce soir) » (M. Ndiaye)
12 « Sey » (Thione Seck / Folklore)
13 « Yolanda » (B. Echemendia / Orchestra Baobab)

Reviews

fRoots - Con Murphy

A collection of their recordings covering the time when they were at the height of that success from 1972 to 1978. This fascinating round-up hints at the potentia for a superb box set retrospective.

Songlines - Katharina Kane

Containing 13 almost untouched tracks recorded between 1972 and 1978 - the golden era of Dakar's then-hottest band - this compilation plunges you right into the heat of Baobab fever.

Mojo - David Hutcheon

A compilation of studio cuts by the coolest band in Dakar in the 1970's. The array of singers, though, makes them arguably Africa's best ever.

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