Baaba Maal et Dande Lenöl

• Wango [Syllart, 1988] B+

See Also:

• Baaba Maal
• Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck
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Consumer Guide Reviews:

Wango [Syllart, 1988]
The talking drummer dominates three other percussionists on Maal's attempt to forge forward-looking pop from the rhythms of Senegal's Tukulor minority. Tricky, sometimes busy, with Maal's tenor cutting confidently through the crowd, it's closer to rock than soukous--funky sax here, lead guitar there, horn charts everywhere. It's also very much itself. Which gives you some idea of where one tradition-conscious African thinks the future must lie. B+