4 finds worth your time.
What Luz Caminera brought back
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Made in Senegal — Orchestra Baobab
Music
Oct 18
★★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
Their first new studio album in a decade, recorded entirely in Dakar and released 23 October on Strut / Madoky Music. New songs sit beside reimagined classics; the line-up now includes Korka Dieng, the first female lead singer in the band's fifty-year history. The tracklist reads like a map of what Senegalese music has been and where it's going.
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Ana Maria — Orchestra Baobab
Music
Oct 18
★★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
A track co-written by the late Rudy Gomis for his grandmother, the only one in his family who supported his music career. The wind carries a message between generations; the arrangement is Afro-Cuban warmth and Casamance Creole poetry meeting at the old club door. This is the Orchestra Baobab sound at its tenderest.
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Family Affair — Alune Wade
Music
Oct 18
★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
The seventh solo album from Senegalese bassist Alune Wade, released two days ago — a conversation between West African traditions and the sounds of New Orleans, where jazz, funk and the griot's ear find common ground. A different current in the same river of Senegalese musicianship.
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Sahad Sarr
Music
Oct 18
★★★★ Luz Caminera's pick
Dakar-based guitarist and singer mixing afrobeat, jazz, funk and blues into a sound that DW calls 'Dakar's voice for cultural change.' Founder of the Stereo Africa label and the Kamyaak eco-village. If Orchestra Baobab is the tree, Sahad is one of the young branches flowering from it.