Thursday, April 29, 2004  

Orchestra Baobab, "Dee Moo Woor"
from Specialist in All Styles (World Circuit)

Only time for one quick update today. Work is buzzin' and my bandwidth is dying. My giant is dying, too.

Wifey-poo and I went to see Orchestra Baobab on Tuesday night at the Birchmere, and they were tite. They are a Senegalese band that primarily plays Cuban-influenced African music. Yet the track I've posted sounds like some busted reggae---I love it. That guitar is da bomb. The cut is from their comeback album, Specialist in All Styles, which came about after a ton of buzz for the 2002 reissue of Pirate's Choice.

For an Afro-Cuban-oriented band, Orchestra Baobab is pretty damn chill, which I dig. Even their hot tracks are only mildly spicy, yet a sold-out crowd on a Tuesday night still did the burnin' mambo. Other folks did the "Phish dance," and it was not a pretty sight. And me? Well, since my pelvis doesn't move (medical condition, I swear), I just did the rock steady---which pretty much looks like a white guy walking in place.

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