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Recommended by us on 2nd February 2012
...according to our Brian on Thu 02 Feb, 2012.
Wow this is wicked, I'm trying out the dub version first. He's working with some Senegalese musicians here is Mr. E and the furious polyrhythms are undercut with some real rugged organic woody sounding bass grooves, the dubbed-out snippets of vocal mantra beautifully riding the relentless hypnotic percussive groove. The original seems even more frantic and trancelike, this is one marvellous inspirational record that totally draws you in. Please breathe very deeply, it's an intoxicating spiritual journey!! Top drawer future/primitive African music played with passion and a real fervour that leaves you stunned and moved.
A stunning new production by Mark Ernestus, drawn from his recordings with some of Senegal's greatest musicians — a griot clan of Sabar drummers from Kaolack in Senegal, led by Bakane Seck, with guest players and vocalists.
Jeri-Jeri's style of Mbalax is swingeingly masterful — heady and hard-grooving, with highly complex, fiercely succinct poly-rhythms — an ancient-futuristic music, mesmeric but sharp as nails, super-charged with drama. Featuring the lovelorn vocals of guest Mbene Diatta Seck, Sabar traditions are fused with furious Afro-Cubanismo, hard funk-rock, and shards of high-life.
Ernestus' nasty, hypnotic, stripped dub — a first in Mbalax — edges in the bass, profiles the talmbat and tungun drums, and scoops the sense out of the vocal.
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