Pirate's Choice [Import]

Orchestra Baobab | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wo.Ci
• ASIN: B000008J5D
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,505,641 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic that you should have, February 3, 2000

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Cpt Simba (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pirate's Choice (Audio CD)

This is one of the essential records of all time. I have recommened this record to all my friends and everyone who hears it loves it. You should have it too! It contains brilliant solo guitar, sax, and vocal performances that float and soar in and out of a mesmerising rhythmic fusion of the players.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How can these people not be world-famous?, January 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pirate's Choice (Audio CD)

This is a bluesy collection of songs played (guitars, bass, sax, congas) and sung (in French, Spanish, and Wolof) by one of the most important West African bands of the late 20th century. The African-American influence is clear, but the music is "pure" Caribbean-influenced West-African blues/pop. Slide this CD into your player, and you'll be in touch with the Dakar music scene of the late '70s and early '80s, played by musicians you've probably never even heard of, but who should rank right up there--at least in the case of the lead guitarist, Barthelemy Attisso--with BB King, Eric Clapton, or Jeff Beck. I rank this CD as probably the best of the 100 or so I bought last year. Timeless stuff. Even if you can't understand a word of it, you'll love it (but the great liner-notes will help you figure out what the songs are about). Last time I checked, this CD was NOT available in major record stores in the US. I live in Asia, and have purchased all the copies I can find here; I ship them to my friends in the US (boomers like you and me) who thank me profusely for the introduction. When this item goes out of print, there won't be any more; the liner notes state that Attisso "is living in Togo but it is not known whether he is involved in music." Let's hope that he and the others collect something in royalties on this substantial collection; they certainly deserve--as much as anyone does--to be rich and famous. The only reservation I have about this CD is that there are only six different cuts, with two alternate takes of two great songs, "Utru Horas" and "Coumba." By the time the songs are repeated, though, you'll probably be yearning to hear them again anyway, so it's not such a bad thing. Even other Orchestra Baobab CDs--"Bamba," for example--don't match this one. Buy it; before long, you'll be humming the tunes; you'll have memorized the guitar solos; and you'll be wondering where you can learn a bit of Wolof.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great great music, May 17, 2006

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Luis Rodrigues (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pirate's Choice (Audio CD)

I was born in the Cape Verde Islands which is close to Senegal, I am on my late thirties, I am a music afficionado and I was surprise to never had heard about this band before. I found out about this band while researching the best genres of music on on BMG music club.In fact the lirics on some the music on Pirates Choice sounds like the dialect I speak. I agree with the other reviewers... Why this guys are not world famous? It is hard to explain how good these guys are...just buy the album. I have around 600 cds, all kind of music and Orchestra Baobab CD's are the ones I would not let anybody borrow. It is like a treasure to me.