los afro-salseros - aminata African Salsa Mbalax mbalakh afro cuban yoruba mambo Rumba Merengue

pam 407
los afro salseros de senegal en la habana
total time: 44,25 min
barcode 8 712604 870126
when günter gretz heard in april 2001 about plans to send a group of senegalese salseros to cuba he was very enthousiastic - and very doubtful. but it all happened - and the result is convincing. this cd presents the singers labah sosseh, pape fall, james gadiaga and mar seck. they are accompanied by musicians selected from dakar's leading salsa orchestras. arranger was yakhya fall, ex- bandleader and guitarist of number one de dakar. there is no keyboard, there is no drum kit, but there are two trumpets, issa cissokho' sax, lots of percussion and a grand piano in beautiful dakar tuning.
salsa inna senegal
when the african influence in afro- cuban music is discussed, you soon read about the yoruba cults on cuba etc. but amongst african musical styles yoruba music has the least tendency to take up afro- cuban elements. so my idea is, that it probably was not the yoruba who influenced this new mixture in cuba, but all the other black slaves who were more at ease in assimilating the european styles proposed by the european musicians. in africa's recorded music you find what may be called "african salsa" in the following countries, starting in the west: senegal, guinea bissau and conakry, mali, ivory coast, benin, the congos, kenia and tanzania. british colonies were obviously less affected than french ones - probably the latin sounds were closer to the french soul than to the british heart.
now when the "colon" brought shellacs of mambos, rumbas and sones to the colonies to show the local black dance bands what was "à la mode" in paris, these musicians had no problems to hear the african part of the music - and to enjoy it.
senegal is a very good example of the attachment to afro- cuban music. this style of music had its ups and downs but always was present. when you take a taxi- tour around all dakar venues presenting live music these days, salsa will be the prominent style. 1982 to 1995 m'balax was up front. i personnaly welcomed m'balax as a final turn away from colonial influences towards a truly senegalese music in my liner notes to ètoile de dakar's "absa gueye" (1984). hearing super cayor's new mix "salsa- mbalax" for the first time in 1995 reconverted me into a fan of african salsa and i stipulate now that the salsa played in senegal is a truly local music. after all there is a fair chance that the "afro" part in afro- cuban music might have left africa from goree - right in front of dakar.
modern music in senegal was always open to foreign influence: elements of jazz, rock, blues and highlife mixed with wolof, manding and serer elements. although some musicians in the old days more or less copied foreign musicians (there was a senegalese johnny halliday): the more sophisticated bands like "baobab", "number one" or "starband" carefully blended the new sounds into their local dish.

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Merci grandement pour merveilleux travail d'archivage surtout pour la nouvelle génération. Juste une suggestion. Pouvez-vous mettre les noms des musiciens figurant sur la fiche technique de sons que vous publiez. Ce serait vraiment utile dans le sens où ça rendra un éternel service de reconnaissance à ces grands artisans de notre musique pour les générations actuelles et futures. Merci de me comprendre🙏