Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Bul Ma Miin (Ndiouga Dieng / Barthélemy Attiso) | 6:02 |
| 2 | Sutukun (Trad. arr. Balla Sidibe / Barthélemy Attiso) | 5:30 |
| 3 | Dee Moo Wóor (Ndiouga Dieng / Barthélemy Attiso) | 4:16 |
| 4 | Jiin Ma Jiin Ma (Rudy Gomis / Ndeye Mbaye / Barthélemy Attiso) | 6:03 |
| 5 | Ndongoy Daara (Barthélemy Attiso / Laye Mboup) | 5:19 |
| 6 | On Verra Ça (Balla Sidibe, arr. Barthélemy Attiso) | 4:56 |
| 7 | Hommage à Tonton Ferrer (Rudy Gomis, Balla Sidibe, Ndiouga Dieng, Barthélemy Attiso, Ibrahim Ferrer) | 5:52 |
| 8 | El Son Te Lama (José Marquetti) | 5:25 |
| 9 | Gnawoe (Barthélemy Attisso / Rudy Gomis) | 6:21 |
News & Reviews
- Thursday, October 9, 2008
NPR's World Café: Orchestra Baobab's Latest Album "Shows They Are As Inventive As Ever"
Orchestra Baobab were the featured guests on yesterday's episode of NPR's World Café. The show includes band member interviews and live performances from the group. You can listen online now at npr.org, which says the band, in its early days, created "a gorgeous, unique mix of harmonies, guitar, saxophone, bass, and drums which started a musical renaissance." Host David Dye says they were "the band in Dakar in the 1970s" and attests that "now, their latest album, Made in Dakar, shows that they are as inventive as ever."
- Thursday, August 21, 2008
Paste: Orchestra Baobab's "Luminous New Album" Is "Effortlessly Groovy and Deliciously Mature"
Orchestra Baobab's most recent release, Made in Dakar, writes Paste magazine, is a "luminous new album that finds the group interpreting—with undiminished vitality—a mix of repertoire items and new tunes." The songs' "sound is effortlessly groovy and deliciously mature," says Paste, "the kind performed, as Baobab’s members do, with perfect vocal harmonies and coat-and-tie stage dignity," with the band's return to regular performances in Dakar giving the new album "an in-the-moment energy."
About this Album
Orchestra Baobab has reunited after a fifteen-year hiatus to record Specialist in All Styles.. The new album builds on the success of their recently reissued 1982 landmark, Pirates Choice.
Co-produced by Youssou N’Dour and Nick Gold, Specialist in All Styles features the unique Afro-Cuban blend that characterizes Orchestra Baobab’s sound. The album features many of the group’s original members, including vocalists Balla Sidibe and Rudy Gomis, saxophonist Issa Cissoko, and guitarist Barthelemy Atisso. A remake of the Cuban classic “El Son Te Llama” is sung by Medoune Diallo, a Pirates Choice vocalist. Another highlight is a poignant version of the ballad “Utrus Horas,” on which the group is joined by Youssou N’Dour and Ibrahim Ferrer.
Orchestra Baobab formed in Dakar in 1970, when Baro N’Diaye and Sidathe Ly assembled an all-star cast of players to perform weekly at the Baobab Club, an intimate meeting spot for Senegalese government officials. Orchestra Baobab was soon playing nightly to sold-out crowds.
Hailed as a world music classic, the group’s Pirates Choice was recently re-released by World Circuit/Nonesuch to critical acclaim. It received four stars in Rolling Stone and a grade A Entertainment Weekly review, in which Will Hermes calls it “a perfect album.” Robert Christgau of the Village Voice writes that “no African band has ever emulated a New World music as gracefully as this Cuban-style unit.”
On July 9, Orchestra Baobab begins a tour of major cities across the U.S.
Credits
MUSICIANS
Balla Sidibe, vocals (2, 6), timbales
Rudy Gomis, vocals (4, 9), maracas, clave
Ndiouga Dieng, vocals (1, 3, 7)
Assane Mboup, vocals (5, 7)
Medoune Diallo, vocals (8)
Barthélemy Attisso, vocals (7, 9), solo & rhythm guitars
Issa Cissokho, tenor saxophone
Thierno Koite, soprano, alto, & tenor saxophones
Latfi Ben Geloune, rhythm guitars
Charlie Ndiaye, bass guitar
Mountaga Koite, drums, congas
Guest stylists:
Ibrahim Ferrer, Youssou N’Dour, vocals (7)
Thio M’baye, sabar drums (3, 8)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
A World Circuit Production
Produced by Nick Gold with Youssou N’Dour
Recorded and Mixed by Jerry Boys
Recorded and Mixed at Livingston Studios, London
Additional Recording at Xippi Studios, Dakar, and Studio Davout, Paris
Assistant Engineers: Simon Burwell, John Mallison, François Monnier, Steve Mustarde, N’Diaga N’Dour
Mastered by Tom Leader and Jerry Boys
Recording Liaison: Omar Sow
Production Coordination by Jenny Cathcart and Sara Daoud
Design by Julian House Intro
Illustrations by Bikok T. Pierre
Photography by Jean-Marie Lerat
