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Television (CD)

By: Baaba Maal (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Television (CD) Album By Baaba Maal (Artist)
1   Television
2   Tindo
3   Miracle
4   Cantaloupe
5   Song For Women, A
6   International
7   Dakar Moon
8   Tindo Quando
 

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Paste (magazine) (p.53) - "TELEVISION embodies the sound of the African future while simultaneously nodding over its shoulder at the pain, joy, suffering and beauty of the continent's past."

Title Note

On TELEVISION, Baaba Maal collaborates with Didi Gutman and Sabina Sciubba of New York's Brazilian Girls to fashion an album that combines subtle electronica with his own kind of Senegalese pop. The album took three years to record, and one track, the softly percolating dance tune "International," appeared the previous year on the Brazilian Girls CD NEW YORK CITY. The album opens with the title track, a Maal/Brazilian Girls collaboration. A muted guitar figure that sounds like a music box floats below a funky samba-like beat. The African percussion embroiders the mix without overwhelming the bouncy club pulse. "Tindo" blends a drum loop, talking drum, and electric bass to propel the subtle intertwining vocals of Maal and Sciubba. "Miracle" sounds like South African jive. Long sustained electric guitar notes introduce this lilting, happy dance tune and Maal and Sciubba turn in a playful duet that skims across the glittering surface of the music. "Cantaloupe" was written by Maal, Gutman, and Barry Reynolds, the guitar player with the legendary Compass Point studio band. The melody has the Latin/Caribbean feel typical of American '30s movie musicals, while Maal contributes a traditional Senegalese vocal. A programmed rhythm track starts about midway through, to add a modern element to another laid-back track. The album closes with two simmering acoustic tracks.

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