Firin' in Fouta

Baaba Maal | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 1994)
• Original Release Date: November 10, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mango
• ASIN: B000003QLM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,710 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #18 in Music > World Music > Africa > Senegal & Gambia

Track Listings

1. Sidiki

2. African Woman

3. Swing Yela

4. Mbaye

5. Njilou

6. Gorel

7. Sama Duniya

8. Salimoun (Funky Kora)

9. Ba

10. Tiedo

Editorial Reviews

CD, featuring Baaba Maal.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly Awesome, December 24, 2001

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Doof (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Firin' in Fouta (Audio CD)

Buy pure chance I was introduced to this album,back in 1995(I think).I met up with a guy,Mark was his name,he had the greatest job in the world,ever.He was in Zimbabwe,looking into signing new artists for Island Records and as fate has it's ways he came and stayed with us at a backpackers lodge where I was working.
Heaven Lodge Chimanimani.No place on the earth I have ever been
can compare to the Chimanimani Mountains,living and working in such paradise was uncomprehendible,now that I look back at it all.

Along came Mark with a few cassettes of his favourite African
musicians,paradise became utopia!!Baaba Maal was introduced to
Chimanimani.Music like I had never heard,in a language I did not
understand it just blew me away,the depth,the sheer feeling of Baaba's soul poors out at you in uncontrollable bliss.Words will never describe what a brilliant musician/singer Baaba Maal is.
He could be singing me into hell and beyond,I would know no different and LOVE every second of it.Go Baaba I thank you,I also thank Mark without him I would never have been introduced
to the music that now carries me around the World.

Ilost the cassette Mark gave me,bought another in Johanessburg'that also went to someone else,bought it on CD and left it with a mate and will carry on buying and conveniently
leaving it where ever I can,Amazingly Awesome,what else can I say?
Thank You
All the best
Doof

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You will be slack-jawed, February 19, 2000

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Seth Bernanke (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Firin' in Fouta (Audio CD)

Living in a southern US city, the musical tastes of my friends tend to the provincial (Shania Twain, Hank Williams I, II or III, and the sound of NASCAR engines roaring), so I have become somewhat a proselyte for the infectious music of west Africa, especially mbalax from Senegal and especially Baaba Maal. There is not a single person I have played this album, my all time favorite, for, who has not enjoyed it at the least or came back to me slack jawed and said something to the effect of "what is this, it's awesome." The drumming and rhythm will shake you to your roots.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Baaba Maal--more of the greatest, September 28, 2000

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Ryan Clover-owens "Ryan Clover" (Ithaca, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Firin' in Fouta (Audio CD)

This is one of my favorite CDs in any category. If you can stand still listening to this music, you are probably not alive. Baaba Maal mixes it up with a fantastic contemporary sound, electronics and all, and traditional Senegalese music. His singing is powerful and dynamic, and the instrumentation is wild yet captures the nuances of his voice; or is it his voice that captures the nuances of the music. You can decide that for yourself, but don't miss listening to it. If you like more traditional Senegalese music, perhaps earlier Baba Maal will be for you. I like it all, but Firn' in Fouta is fresh and exciting and flies beyond the confines of categorization.