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 | Title : Pirates Choice
Author : Orchestra Baobab
Release Date : 20020108
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $22.98
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Editorial Reviews :
For people who know their Senegalese music, Orchestra Baobab's Pirates Choice is the Holy Grail. By the time this music was recorded to four-track in 1982, the immensely popular band had been playing nightly for years at a Dakar club called Baobab. But legendary status in Senegal didn't help the musicians get wider attention--the album wasn't released in Europe until 1987, and it only now comes to the U.S. for the first time. Latin music was popular in Dakar, a port city, and the band mixed various strains of Latin music with different African music styles to create uniformly stunning results not all that different from Afro-Cuban music. The French vocals are lovely, and the powerful mix of African and Latin percussion is undeniable--but keep a particular ear out for guitarist Barthelemy Attisso, whose tasteful leads float over the top. The original six-track album is hard to pass up, but this reissue contains a second disk with six unreleased songs from the same session, making this a must-have.
Buyer Reviews :
A juicy, expanded 2-CD reissue of Baobab's legendary 1982 album. Gorgeous West African pop, with a heavy emphasis on the style's deep Afro-Cuban roots. Recommended, although I agree that this doesn't have the same lush, hypnotic qualities of their other albums.. The emphasis here is more on dance rhythms than on pretty guitar riffs.
(by Joe Sixpack)
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