Orchestra Boabab - Mouhamadou Bamba (2026 Repress)

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: SYLREC220STD
Barcode: 3516628350610
Release Date: 25 Sep 2026
Genre: Jazz/Funk/World/Reggae

Released in 1981, the legendary album “Mouhamadou Bamba” is the masterpiece of the Orchestra Baobab, which has dedicated more than ten years of existence. Under the direction of the percussionist saxophonist Issa Sissokho, of the irremovable guitarist Barthélémy Attiso the band records 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.

TRACKLIST:
SIDE A
A1. Mouhamadou Bamba
A2. Ndiawolou
A3. Boulmamine
SIDE B
B4. Gnawou
B5. Doomou Baaye
B6. Yen Saay