Orchestra Boabab - Si Bou Odja

Originally released in 1981, Orchestra Baobab’s second studio album, Si Bou Odja – produced at the Golden Baobab in Dakar by the young producer, Ibrahima Sylla – has been reissued by Syllart Records.

Following their masterpiece, Mouhamadou Bamba, recorded in the same year, Si Bou Odja was to once again make its mark on the history of Senegalese music, propelling the group’s success into a new musical decade. Under the leadership of the dynamic saxophonist Issa Sissokho and the ever-present guitarist Barthélémy Attiso, it was notably the young singer Médoune Diallo – a future icon of Senegalese salsa – who delivered one of his masterpieces with the irresistible ‘Autorail’, a driving track celebrating the opening of the railway line linking Dakar to Niamey.