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Orchestra Baobab

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Styles: Afro-Pop, Afro-Cuban

Biography: From inauspicious beginnings as the weekend house band at a Dakar club for government officials, Senegal's Orchestra Baobob, named for the club (which in turn took its name from the native baobob tree), went on to become one of the seminal bands of world music, with an influence that extended far beyond ...Read full biography

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Pirate's Choice

Released: 1982

Label: World Circuit UK

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Orchestra Baobab returned to rhumba with a vengeance on Pirate's Choice, but you have to wonder a little why this two-CD deluxe edition of the 1982 album received such unanimous praise from the world-music ...Read full review

Sibou Odia

Released: 1981

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More Orchestra Baobab albums: Main Albums (8), Compilations (6), Singles & EPs (1)

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