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Track Listings
| 1. Yero Mama (Name Of a Prince) |
| 2. Wango Arti (Tribal Dance Comeback) |
| 3. Loodo (Place To Have Fun) |
| 4. Daande Lenol (The Voice of the People) |
| 5. Bouyel (The Boat) |
| 6. Baydikacce (A tribute to a nice person) |
| 7. African Woman |
| 8. Hamady Boiro |
| 9. Sukanaayo (I will follow you) |
| 10. Toro (Bird) |
| 11. Baaba (Name of a Person) |
| 12. Baayo (Orphan) |
| 13. Taara (Go) |
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Remember the majestic 'Yero Mama'? or the princely original version of'African Woman', now remixed out of our collective consciousness? Or the song that gave his band their name (or vice versa) 'Dande Lenol'? Well, they're all here, and you'd be wise to snap up this careful compilation even if you do have the original three or four albums from which its culled.
Baaba's childhood in a small fishing village showed little promise of his musical future until he persuaded the powers that be to allow him to call the worshippers to the mosque each day. His musician mother encouraged him to follow a career in music and, after moving to Dakar and winning a scholarship he joined a 70-piece orchestra, Asly Fouta.
After touring West Africa with his guitarist friend Mansour Seck, the two decamped to Paris and the Conservatoire des Beaux Arts, returning to Senegal with a mass of new ideas for incorporating pop and reggae with traditional Senegalese music. Enter the ubiquitous Afro-Parisian producer Ibrahim Sylla, who launched Baaba Maal onto an international stage with the 1988 album Wango.
The main feature of all Baaba Maal's music both then and now, is a strict adherence to a Senegalese feel, no matter what technology is used to ease its passage. Baaba is unwavering loyal to Senegalese culture. When interviewed, he never defers to the sort of preening self-promotion that some African artists resort to: when asked about his influences, he doesn't say John Coltrane, or Otis Redding or The Beatles, as many do. He replies: traditional Senegalese music.
And traditional Senegalese music is certainly what he plays. Uniquely. --John Armstrong
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They lie right here, in the BEST OF THE EARLY YEARS collection: simply a 'must have' for any avid Baaba Maal listener who would appreciate his 1980s and 90s efforts, from his first album Wango to the 1992 Lam Touro and beyond.
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