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Nine years after the group’s last LP, the Basic Channel co-founder’s latest collaboration with Senegalese players is an even more spacious, psychedelic fusion of dub techno and mbalax drumming. No ...

At the Roundhouse, he started the show with one of his most well-known songs, “Immigrés”. Youssou and the Super Étoile de Dakar bounced in with the kind of energy that usually emerges gradually ...

For the most part, it’s the lyrics of a song that we remember most. A song really only needs a catchy chorus to be a hit. But, every so often, there is a musician who can create an instrumental break ...

Lyrics and vocals are, of course, an integral part of music. As a matter of fact, some artists have made it big by being a mediocre musician and a masterful lyricist. On the other hand, some artists ...

Growing up in Dakar's oceanside Mermoz neighbourhood, my earliest memories were of sandy feet, salt-kissed air and running freely through low-slung houses that ended right at the edge of the waves.

Amid the global boom of Afrobeats and Amapiano, one may easily forget a generation of musicians who put Africa on the map during the period when music from the continent was generally categorised as ...

Youssou N’Dour’s voice is one of the wonders of music, a soaring bird that has taken him around the globe from his native Dakar, Senegal, as a beloved, ever-visionary arts ambassador for more than ...

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