Listening diary 2nd April, 2022: Super Diamono - Jigeenu Ndakaru (mbalax, 1982)
I don't know anything about this artist, genre, or even country, but I have somehow found
myself quite enjoying this album. It follows the afrobeat traditions of merging danceable
jazz, funk and dub from western music and merging it with countless african influences. I'm
sure there's some subtlety to the Senegalese musical tradition that I'm totally brushing a
broad stroke over here, but I'm not educated enough in the sounds of the region to parse it.
I do know that I'm not a big fan of music centred around danceability, so this must be
something special to get me out of my seat. It's fun, catchy, the instrumentation is diverse,
and the repetition is kept to a minimum. Definitely one of the most interesting records I've
heard out of Africa.
6.5 (4th listen)
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