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Etoile de Dakar featuring Youssou N'Dour

Title: Once upon a time in Senegal - Birth of Mbalax 1979-1981(2CD)

Label: Sterns Africa

Cat No:STCD3054-55
Format:CD

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• There are not many African artists whose names are as well-known as Youssou N’Dour’s. And it’s not just his ‘7 Seconds’ duet with Neneh Cherry, or his frequent collaborations with Peter Gabriel and others. No, you don’t reach his status just by who you hang out with, you get there by who you are and what you do.

• On one level the 2CDs of ‘Once Upon A Time In Senegal’ form a chapter in the story of who Youssou N’Dour is and how he got there. But on another they show him simply as an equal member of a band … a band in the right place at the right time and doing the right things. That brief but vital moment in time is captured in these 23 tracks selected from the cassettes that Etoile de Dakar recorded between 1979 and 1981. Several have never been released outside of Senegal, and all have been sensitively re-mastered from the earliest available audio source. These are the best sounding recordings of this material available … bar none!

• Keeping up the standard, the accompanying booklet features detailed notes by Mark Hudson (author of, among others, the Youssou-centric novel ‘The Music In My Head’) and draws upon specially commissioned and candid interviews with surviving band members together with previously unseen photographs.

Track Listing for Once upon a time in Senegal - Birth of Mbalax 1979-1981(2CD)
CD1: 1979 - 1980
1. Thiely
2. Dom Sou Nare Bakh
3. Esta China
4. Mane Khouma Khol Thi Yao
5. Jalo
6. Absa Gueye
7. Thiapa Thioly
8. Dagotte
9. Dounya
10. Diandioli
11. Kine Kine
12. M'Badane
CD1: 1hr 17mins

CD2 : 1980 - 1981
1. Tolou Badou N’Diaye
2. Nit Kou N'Gnoul
3. Yalaye Dogal
4. My Wa Wa
5. Lay Suma Lay
6. Diankha Demal
7. Khaley Étoile
8. Sama Guenth-Gui
9. M'Baye Gueye
10. Titeur
11. Maleo

Reviews

Songlines - Katherine Lobeck Kane

It'd be impossible to pack more life or joy into two hours of music. ****

fRoots - Sarah Coxson

Throw the windows wide open, crank up the stereo and revel in the sultry sounds of seventies Senegal. Winner. fRoots Playlist

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Etoile de Dakar featuring Youssou N'Dour

Once upon a time in Senegal - Birth of Mbalax 1979