First Watch: Jeri-Jeri With Baaba Maal, 'Gawlo'

One of my favorite songs last year was a collaboration between a Sengalese drum collective and a German techno producer. The producer, Mark Ernestus traveled to the West land to figure with Jeri-Jeri, a gaggle that plays a preferred popular music referred to as mbalax. The result was "Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh," a trance-inducing current of percussion with soaring vocals, and it ultimately finished abreast of NPR Music's one hundred Favorite Songs of 2012.

I was excited to be told earlier this year that Jeri-Jeri and Ernestus did not stop with one song. there is a full-length mbalax album due out Gregorian calendar month eleven referred to as 800% Ndagga, additionally as a dubbed-out "versions" assortment of a similar songs.

The first single from the album is "Gawlo," that options noted Senegalese singer Baaba Maal. The attendant video focuses on Maal's vocals and Jeri-Jeri's dancers, Fatou Mboup and Sidy Diop, and was shot by Ernestus himself in Maal's yard. There are not any pictures of sabars — the autochthonous drum at the core of mbalax — thus I asked Ernestus concerning however he selected to shoot the video:

"With 'no budget' being the sole methodology, you check up on the circumstances and are available up with one thing ad libitum. we have a tendency to drove to Baaba Maal's house with our dancers, a basic HD tv camera and a boom box, then it had been all shot outside within the yard, in one or 2 hours."

I asked Jeri-Jeri leader Bakane Seck if his band's sound has modified in the slightest degree since he began operating with Ernestus:

"This project after all comes from Mbalax and Sabar, however we've one thing new, plenty of changes and ideas return from Mark. within the starting he simply came to national capital each few months to search out the manner the way to move this project. Then additionally to Jeri-Jeri, that is my family — a really massive family of sabar drummers — several massive musicians ar enjoying in these recordings, however everyone was happy to figure with Mark as a result of he's transfer one thing terribly new that no-one has done here."

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