Orchestra Baobab - Bamba 1980, 1981 / 1994 torrent

Orchestra Baobab
Bamba / 1994

CD-reissue of two rare LP's from the early 80's:
Mouhamadou Bamba / 1980
Sibou Odia / 1981


This CD edition collects two Baobab albums from 1980-81.
Classic hypnotic grooves that creep up on you and bring a sense of wonder and elation.

The rockin' side of Orchestra Baobab dominates Bamba, which combines the Senegalese group's Mouhamadou Bamba and Sibou Odia albums from 1980 and 1981.

Pirates Choice from 1982 is a once in a lifetime gem, eerie in its floating beauty, but Bamba is different and just as incredibly wonderful in its own way.

It's much louder and liver sounding, the voices laced with echo, N'Diaye's bass and Papa Ba's rhythm guitar more prominent in the mix, and Attisso brought in his noise toys and gets rowdy.

The band sounds confident and in their prime, the riffs are more thoroughly worked out, mixing solo sax on "Doomou Baye" in with guitar and voices to change the emphasis, or playing the horn section riffs off the vocal harmonies.
The trademark galloping rhythm guitar is fully evident on "Boulmamine," while clarinet pops up on "Ndiawolou" as Attisso goes the crystalline solo route again with some Issa Cissokho tenor sax interjections. "Gnawou" and "Autorail" both work off a rhythm riff very close to the Ritchie Valens "La Bamba", Cissokho's sax shines on the former, and the jaunty "Sou Sedhiou" features clopping drums underneath more good sax and guitar solos. "Ndiambaane" may be a little lightweight to justify its nine minutes, but not "Sibou Odia," a great 14-minute stretch-out with the percussion percolating with far more drive than the Orchestra Baobab norm.

Bamba is simply a great album and the perfect place for rock-oriented listeners to enter the world of Orchestra Baobab...or the whole realm of West African pop music, for that matter.

A definite must-have.



CD / 1994 / Remastered / 320Kbps



Tracklist:
1 Mouhamadou Bamba
2 Boulmamime
3 Ndiawolou
4 Doomou Baaye
5 Gnawou
6 Bon Bon I
7 Autorail
8 Sou Sedhiou
9 Ndiambaane
10Sibou Odia


Personnel:
Bass – Charles Ndiaye
Clarinet, Saxophone [Alto] – Peter Udo
Drums, Percussion – Montaga Kouyate
Guitar [Lead] – Barthélémy Attisso
Rhythm Guitar – Pape Bâ
Saxophone [Tenor & Alto] – Issa Cissokho
Vocals – Medoune Diallo
Vocals, Percussion – Ndiouga Dieng, Rudolph Gomis
Vocals, Timbales – Balla Sidibe, Thione Seck


Track 1 - 5 from the album Mouhamadou Bamba / 1980
Track 6 - 10 from the album Sibou Odia / 1981

Recorded & mixed at Studio Golden Baobab, Dakar, Senegal



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