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Title: not West African music
Review: though Lamine Toure is trumpeted as an authentic percussionist from a traditional lineage in West Africa, which he is, that is not what Group Saloum is about. The rest of the members are pretty much Euro-American rock musicians from Boston. As a result, the album is not African music with Euro-American enfused but Euro-American music with some West African drumming enfused.This album lacks any of the groove and rhythm that makes Wolof and Manding music so dominating in Africa. The guitars are painfully electric (do not think Ali Farka, think 80s metal) and have no relationship to traditional African strings/guitar.If this sounds good to you, then buy the album as a Euro-American sound with African elements and not the other way around.
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