Toure Kunda – Labrador
https://amf.didiermary.fr/toure-kunda-labrador/
Labrador, title track from Toure Kunda‘s album Amadou-Tilo in 1983.
It’s a cover of the track that appeared on their first album and as a single.
Amadou-Tilo is dedicated to Amadou Toure, brother of Ismaila and Sixu-Tidiane and former member of the band who tragically died on-stage in 1983. […]
Orchestra Baobab – Pirates Choice
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestra-baobab-pirates-choice-full-album/
Réédité en 2001, puis en 2015 pour les 50 ans d’Orchestra Baobab, c’est l’occasion de redécouvrir Pirates Choice, enregistré à Dakar en 1982. […]
Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès – Na Binta
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dieuf-dieul-thies-na-binta/
Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès, 3 singers Assane Camara, Bassirou Sarr and Gora Mbaye together with their chef d’orchestre and guitar player Pape Seck (an ex-member of Guelewar) compose traditional rhythms from all the regions of Senegal, with fuzz guitars, horn sections and hallucinatory percussion. The result is an explosive mixture of an Electric Psychedelic sound [...]
Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès – Short documentary
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dieuf-dieul-thies-promo-documentary/
The band Dieuf-Dieul de Thiès did not manage to release any of its recordings for 30+ years. Here’s a short documentary for the release of “Aw Sa Yone Vol. 2” in 2015, after Vol. 1 in 2013.
On Vol. 1 the tracks were well divided among three singers: Assane Camara with his unique style, […]
Jackson Five in Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jackson-five-africa/
“Jackson Five in Africa” est un documentaire (50 mn environ), qui montre le premier voyage des Jackson Five (ou 5 ?), dont Michael, alors agé de 16 ans, en Afrique, et leur arrivée à Dakar au Sénégal du 1er au 3 février 1974.
A priori, d’après ce que l’on peut lire en ligne, cette tournée […]
Baaba Maal – The traveller
https://amf.didiermary.fr/baaba-maal-traveller-diahowo/
Shot at a party? Old video… A young Baaba Maal, with Mamadou Djiby Seck, singing The traveller.
Youssou N’Dour – YaaKaar (Hope)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/youssou-ndour-yaakaar-hope-live/
The song “Hope”, also known as “Yaakaar”, was released on Youssou N’Dour’s album “Eyes Open” in 1992.
Elage Diouf – Dama la nob
https://amf.didiermary.fr/elage-diouf-dama-la-nob/
Elage Diouf, né El Hadji Fall Diouf à Dakar, est un artiste québecois, passé par le Cirque du Soleil, comme chanteur et percussionniste. Il sort en 2010 son 1er album solo nommé Aksil (Bienvenue en Wolof).
Baaba Maal – Wakanda
https://amf.didiermary.fr/wakanda-baaba-maal-black-panther-ost/
Wakanda is a song by Ludwig Göransson, from the first Black Panther’s OST in 2018, performed by Baaba Maal.
Youssou N’Dour – Nelson Mandela (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/youssou-ndour-nelson-mandela/
This version of “Nelson Mandela” is from “Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Etoile de Dakar – Fatteliku” released in 2015.
This album was recorded live in Athens on Peter Gabriel’s So tour in 1987.
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Ausecuma Beats
https://amf.didiermary.fr/meet-ausecuma-beats/
Ausecuma Beats are more than just a band, they are a philosophy. Led by master djembe player, Boubacar Gaye, the nine-strong ensemble, demonstrate artists coming together based on an idea – the idea of place, of transplanting cultural heritage into a contemporary city.
Ausecuma Beats is people from all corners of the world finding themselves […]
