Made in Dakar

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Made in Dakar
by Orchestra Baobab
from Nonesuch

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Good music
  Orchestra Baobab started out in the 1970s. During that time many Senegalese bands were playing mambo, salsa, etc. and a few bands like this one changed the sound by adding electric guitars and incorporating local rhythms.
  On this CD, which has great liner notes, they have broadened their sound by adding to the Cuban percussion some West African drums. For me, a latin music fan, the result of a very exotic sound with echoes of Cuban music styles such as Guajira and Son. There are plenty of guitar solos... more info

• One of the best of 2008?
  Yes it is early to be making such a list so soon but I would not be surprised if this was on my top ten for the year. I already had two of their previous and thought that I did not need another. But, every time I went to my local cd store the clerks were playing this cd and it has just slowly but surely won me over. This is music that is not easy to find so order it now and enjoy it. It is part King Sunny Ade and part Cuban Allstars and is just plain well done-the Orchestra Baobab way.

• Vibes from the Motherland
  This is such a rich taste of the densely textured, sophisticated structure of African music -- in this case Afro Cuban. The key elements really stand out -- the polyrhythmic (many shifting percussive patterns at once)
  and falsetto passages. These elements are so present in the motown and pop music of the 60s. i keep thinking of the original Frankie Lymon recording of Why Do Fools Fall in Love, where he breaks into that angelic falsetto over the booming, chanting anchor of the bassline, which is SO... more info

• Another Masterpiece
  I haven't been buying much new music lately and hadn't even realized this had been released. I just happened to catch Orchestra Baobab performing live at a small club at the recent Montreal Jazz Festival and was lucky enough to hear some of the tracks on this disk performed live the first time I heard them. The show was just incredible and the tracks from "Made in Dakar" were definitely among the highlights of the show for me. I've been listening to "Specialist In All Styles" and "Pirates Choice" constantly... more info

Tracks:

1. Pape Ndiaye - Orchestra Baobab, Mboup, Laye
2. Nijaay - Orchestra Baobab, Mboup, Laye
3. Beni Baraale - Orchestra Baobab, Bembeya Jazz De Gui
4. Ami Kita Bay - Orchestra Baobab, Gomis, Rudy
5. Cabral - Orchestra Baobab,
6. Sibam - Orchestra Baobab, Diallo, Medoune
7. Aline - Orchestra Baobab, Sidibe, Bala
8. Ndéleng Ndéleng - Orchestra Baobab, Seck, Thione
9. Jirim - Orchestra Baobab, Dieng, Ndouga
10. Bikowa - Orchestra Baobab, Cissoko, Issa
11. Colette - Orchestra Baobab, Attisso, Barthélemy

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