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Afrique > Senegal > Orchestra Baobab |
Orchestra Baobab
In their heyday considered one of the finest live bands in West Africa, Orchestra Baobab are to Senegal what the Buena Vista Social Club have been to Cuba: a repository of some of the country’s finest music traditions and a band resurrected after years of oblivion. Formed in 1970, the seven musicians have come to symbolise unity in this proud nation and, since 2001, they have seduced audiences worldwide. In 2007, they released a seminal album entirely recorded in their capital’s Xippi studios Made in Dakar. It was only their second since they were resurrected six years earlier. |
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WOMEX 2001
Exclusive Webcast of Womex 2001
The WOMEX is eight years old and alive and kicking. After two years static in Berlin, its place of birth, the Worldwide Music Expo has taken to the road again, winding up in Rotterdam, simultaneously this year's European Cultural Capital. Housed in one of the city's often weird and sometimes wonderful architectural delights, De Doelen, the trade fair boasts something near 500 stands lining endless corridors plus 34 showcases programmed throughout the afternoon and evening over four days. Needless to say, visitors are advised to go for comfort rather than elegance.
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The Rough Guide to West African Gold
World Music Network Harmonia Mundi
2007 |
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Made In Dakar
World Circuit Harmonia Mundi
2007 |
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A night at Club Baobab
Oriki Music Discograph
2006 |
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Specialist in all styles
World Circuit
2002 |
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Roots & Fruits
Popular
1999 |
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N'Wolof
Dakar Sound
1998 |
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On verra ça
World Circuit
1992 |
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Pirate's choice
World Circuit
1982 |
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Bamba
Stern's Music Socadisc
1980 |
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World Circuit
Tel : +44 (20) 7749 3222 | Fax : +44 (20) 7749 3232
1st Floor, Shoreditch Stables
138 Kingsland Rd
London E2 8DY London | GBR | E2 8DY
Send an email | See the website
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