Journal Monday, December 01, 2008

Paste: Orchestra Baobab's "Luminous New Album" Is "Effortlessly Groovy and Deliciously Mature"

Orchestra Baobab's most recent release, Made in Dakar, is the band's second new album since the 2002 reissue of their seminal 1982 work Pirates Choice, and, writes Paste magazine's Siddhartha Mitter, this latest contribution to the band's renaissance is a "luminous new album that finds the group interpreting—with undiminished vitality—a mix of repertoire items and new tunes."

Mitter says the songs' "sound is effortlessly groovy and deliciously mature, the kind performed, as Baobab’s members do, with perfect vocal harmonies and coat-and-tie stage dignity."

She cites the band's return to regular live performances in Dakar, Senegal, over the past few years as a boon both for giving the new album "an in-the-moment energy" and for making the musicians of Orchestra Baobab, "once again, active participants in a highly fertile local cultural scene."

To read the complete article, visit pastemagazine.com.

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