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Made in Dakar | 
 enlarge | Artist: Orchestra Baobab
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 3578
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 433788
UPC: 075597994407
EAN: 0075597994407
ASIN: B0013D8JD8
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Pape Ndiaye - Orchestra Baobab, Mboup, Laye | | • | Nijaay - Orchestra Baobab, Mboup, Laye | | • | Beni Baraale - Orchestra Baobab, Bembeya Jazz De Gui | | • | Ami Kita Bay - Orchestra Baobab, Gomis, Rudy | | • | Cabral - Orchestra Baobab, | | • | Sibam - Orchestra Baobab, Diallo, Medoune | | • | Aline - Orchestra Baobab, Sidibe, Bala | | • | Ndeleng Ndeleng - Orchestra Baobab, Seck, Thione | | • | Jirim - Orchestra Baobab, Dieng, Ndouga | | • | Bikowa - Orchestra Baobab, Cissoko, Issa | | • | Colette - Orchestra Baobab, Attisso, Barthelemy |
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Amazon.com
Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab, having triumphed over changing tastes and a 16-year hiatus, are back with Made in Dakar, their first studio album since 2002's Specialist In All Styles. Featuring guest vocals from their world-renowned countrymen Youssou Ndour and Africando's Medoune Diallo, the set list encompasses songs from ancient griot sources ("Pape Ndiaye"), tributes to departed colleagues ("Nijaay"), Portuguese Creole influences from Guineau Bissau ("Ami Kita Bay"), sixties-era Congolese soukous ("Aline"), and Baobab's own mbalsa, which combines Ndour’s groundbreaking mbalax groove with salsa. But in any context, Baobab's Latin-North African-Afropop fusion never fails to emerge in the forefront, crowned by bandleader Barthelemy Attisso’s borderline psychedelic lead guitar, smoldering brass, percussion and vocal arrangements and always, a soulful way with a Cuban clave. Hearing Ndour singing with the band he once inadvertently put out of business is an especially moving experience, as is the wonderful cover of "Beni Baraale," a Bembeya Jazz of Guinee standard, and Medoune Diallo’s peerless solo turn, which could melt a heart of stone. But with music of this quality, it’s pointless to list highlights. These guys never, ever mess up so picking favorites is a purely subjective exercise. Not to be missed, under any circumstances. --Christina Roden
Product Description
Released in England last fall to rapturous reviews, Made In Dakar has landed on many British critics year-end, best-of lists. The Guardian
called Orchestra Baobab masters of an urban style that pairs rippling, fast-flowing guitar lines with impassioned vocals and sophisticated
dance rhythms. These move effortlessly from rumba, reggae and highlife to more indigenous grooves such as mbalax and their own mbalsa, an infectious salsa hybrid heard on the track Ami Kita Bay. The Sunday Times agreed, declaring the group a walking compendium of West African music, saxophones and guitars rocking in rhythm over sinuous percussion. The sleek, jazzed-up funk of Colette - dedicated to Carlos Santana - is the work of a group that, in contrast to some of its rivals, knows no frontiers. London's The Mirror summed up the enthusiasm of both critics and loyal fans: The first album in six years from this bountiful Senegalese collective glitters and tingles with rejuvenating
glee, confirming their status as the jewel in the crown of African pop.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
Good music November 19, 2008
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 here with a lot of changes in the rhythm, so the album never feels repetitive. They look for inspiration equally in Senegal's musical heritage as well as calypso music, salsa, and even Carlos Santana.
One of the best of 2008? July 28, 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 July 26, 2008
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 classically African.
These are rico suave , smooth , jazzy nightclub sounds from the ends of the earth -- the last bit of land of west Africa, ie Senegal, Cabo Verde and out into the vast Atlantic. Chilling in a historical context.
Another Masterpiece July 11, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 since they were released and there are tracks on this disk that are even better than anything on those two outstanding recordings. Since picking up the new disk, I keep wearing my iPod battery down replaying "Pape Ndiaye," "Nijaay," "Colette" and "Aline." This is a great recording and if you have any interest in African music, pick it up!
propulsive, dynamic music June 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Like the previous reviewer, I did not hesitate in buying Baobob's "Made in Dakar" I have all their available releases. This music is never far from my players..car or home. If they dont get you groovin and movin ,you are dead.
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