Orchestra Baobab

vocals, guitars, saxophones, bass, batterie (orchestre) · 1970 · Dakar

Orchestra founded in Dakar in 1970 as the house band of the Baobab Club, blending Cuban sound with Wolof and, to a lesser extent, Mandinka music. Disbanded in 1987 in the face of the rise of mbalax, it re-formed in 2001 after the rediscovery of its records by European labels.

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Styles

• Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz
• Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban

Landmark tracks

• Bul Ma Miin (2002)
• Sutukun (2002)
• Ndongoy Daara (2002)
• Hommage à Tonton Ferrer (2002)
• El son te llama (2002)

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