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My apologies. I usually make it a point not to moan about MOG in public, but as ther person who has been credited with fathering this toddler called African Tuesday - an erroneous attribution, I still insist the honor belongs to Cody and to consumerx - I should have contriibuted to the last one. Alas, MOG has not permitted me to upload songs for almost a week. I have tried. And once whatever bu...
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but thus far I haven't posted this - probably their best track of the 1980s. It was remade as "Homage A Tonton Ferrer" on "Specialist In All Styles" five years or so back, but this is the original, song by Rudy Gomis
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and the title track of their 1980 LP on Jambaar Records of Dakar, Senegal, "Mouhamadou Bamba". He was a Senegalese religious leader and founder of the Mouride Brotherhood.The song is written and sung by Thione Seck. Tomorrow night, incidentally, will be sixties Jamaican gospel all the way
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on this track by Orchestre Baobab, written by guitarist Bartelemy Attisso, and sung in Wolof by Rody Gomis and Ndiouga Dieng. "Colette" is Bartelemy's wife, and in the song he is begging her not to abandon him, as life without her would make no sense.Jesus Ramos is the trombonist by the way
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here, for your enjoyment, ripped from ancient vinyl, is Orchestra Baobab's 1982 Afro-Cuban Senegalese classic "Ray Mbele", written and sung by Medoune Diallo, who shares lead vocals with Balla Sidibe
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