Orchestra Boabab - Mouhamadou Bamba

Released in 1981, the legendary album, “Mouhamadou Bamba”, is the masterpiece of the Orchestra Baobab. Under the direction of the percussionist saxophonist, Issa Sissokho, and the irreplaceable guitarist, Barthélémy Attiso, the band recorded this album at the Golden Baobab studio in Dakar directed and produced by the young producer, Ibrahima Sylla. 

The Baobab symbolizes both the rooting in Senegalese traditional values and the ability of the tree to reach heights, the sound of the group is a perfect syncretism of Senegalese and Afro-Cuban imaginaries in which the montunos of electric guitars and vocal improvisations in wolof language marry subtly to the rhythms of cuban son and other boleros.