Baaba Maal, the Senegalese master-musician and cultural warrior, released a critically lauded new album, The Traveller, earlier this year. Glasgow's Auntie Flo remixed Baaba Maal's track "Gilli Men" - LISTEN HERE.
Baaba Maal recently played a set of shows with Mumford & Sons in support of their new collaboration "There Will Be A Time". Baaba Maal and Mumford & Sons performed "Wona" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Watch the performance HERE.
The Traveller, Baaba's eleventh solo album, a mixture of roots African sounds and cutting-edge western electro elements, won international acclaim upon its initial release in January.
Watch the video for single "Gilli Men."
Some praise for Baaba Maal's The Traveller:
"Not only a welcome "return to form" but sounds like a career pinnacle." -
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"At a relatively spry 62, Maal's voice retains both upper register strength and youthful clarity." - Spin
"The Traveller, is a conceptual declaration, one of those in-studio meetings of an African artist and European producer that can either go very wrong or very right. Thank goodness that here it's very much the latter." - NPR Music
"In these songs Maal continues to celebrate his people, his culture, and the Fulani language, even as he presents the listener with challenges to their preservation from inside and outside Senegal." - All Music Guide
"wonderfully lush and mellow" - MOJO
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