ossory

Dakar run end to end, from Almadies and Yoff through Plateau and Medina out to Pikine and Guediawaye, letting the facts carry the satire: a rally that kept the city's name and left the continent, a bronze colossus cast in Pyongyang, an airport moved forty-five kilometres away. Goree and Thiaroye are named, never sung over.

L103 The Local Anthems Mbalax

Ndank Ndank Dakar

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Style

Fast mbalax at 148 BPM over a driving sabar battery of nder, mbeng-mbeng and col with talking-drum tama fills answering every phrase, bright interlocking electric guitar, punchy horn stabs and warm bass, sung by equal-share male and female Senegalese leads in a thick Dakar Wolof-French accent with a small mixed chorus answering.

Tags

  • #Dakar
  • #Senegal
  • #Mbalax
  • #Sabar
  • #Tama
  • #Teranga
  • #Wolof
  • #WestAfrica
  • #CityAnthem
  • #CeebuJen
  • #Goree
  • #Medina
  • #LacRose
  • #CarRapide
  • #SatiricalSong
  • #originalsong
  • #ossory