Maal, Baaba: The Traveller
Maal, Baaba: The Traveller
Format: CD
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Artist: Maal, Baaba
Label: Marathon Artists
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060454940135
Genre: International
2016 release from the Senegalese singer and guitarist. The album is a blend of African roots and more contemporary electronic influences all beautifully woven together at varying tempos, and carrying different messages for the listener. The Traveller opens with the raucous ‘Fulani Rock’, underpinned by dark throbbing drums, intricate guitars and Baaba Maal's distinctive vocal soaring overhead, carrying messages for his people. Other standout tracks are the beautiful 'One Day' and 'Gilli Men', both resplendent with glistening guitars, velvet-sounding tom-toms, soft strings and Baaba Maal's voice gently echoing against a backdrop of rapturous, layered backing vocals, which tell us to both 'Pursue your own excellence,' and 'Feed your soul'. Unsurprisingly, for an artist who uses music as a medium to spread important messages to his people and beyond, the album closes with two songs 'War' and 'Peace.' Both feature powerful spoken word poetry by Lemn Sissay, official poet of the 2012 Olympics and recently appointed Chancellor of The University of Manchester. The Traveller was recorded in both London and Senegal and was produced by Johan Hugo from The Very Best. The record includes Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons, who met Baaba Maal at his annual music festival Blues Du Fleuve in Fouta, Northern Senegal.
Tracks:
1.1 Fulani Rock
1.2 Gilli Men
1.3 One Day
1.4 Kalaajo
1.5 Lampenda
1.6 Traveller
1.7 Jam Jam
1.8 War
1.9 Peace
