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Orchestra Baobab Live, Hutru horas Play Video

Orchestra Baobab Live, Hutru horas

Orchestra Baobab Live, Hutru horas (www.donidoni.it)

Orchestra Baobab - Nijaay live at Malta Jazz Festival Play Video

Orchestra Baobab - Nijaay live at Malta Jazz Festival

Africa's perfect pop group are back! Five years on from the best-selling 'Specialist in All Styles', Orchestra Baobab return with 'Made in Dakar', an album that celebrates their roots in one of the world's most...

Orchestra Baobab - Coumba Play Video

Orchestra Baobab - Coumba

Orchestra Baobab - Coumba from the album Pirate's Choice originally recorded in 1982 re-released by World Circuit Records 2001 If you like the music, please support the artists by buying it!

Orchestra Baobab - Cabral - HQ Play Video

Orchestra Baobab - Cabral - HQ

One of the longest excisting bands on the world, these senegalese guys, highly influenced by cuban music as well. Take your time and let yourself float away on these relaxed tropical sounds.

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Orchestra Baobab Biography

Orchestra Baobab is a Senegalese Afro-Cuban, Son, Wolof and Pachanga band. Organized in 1970, as a multi-ethnic, multi-national club band, Orchestre Baobab adapted the then current craze for Cuban Music (growing out of the Congolese Soukous style) in West Africa to Wolof Griot culture and the Mandinga musical traditions of the Casamance. One of the dominant African bands of the 1970s, they were overshadowed in the 1980s and broke up, only to reform in 2001 after interest in their recordings grew in Europe.

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