really enjoyed the album yaral sa doom by wau wau collectif!
everything i know about it is from the bandcamp description so let me put an excerpt here:
In 2018, Swedish music archeologist and leftfield musician Karl Jonas Winqvist traveled to Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, a small fishing village turned hub of Senegal’s bohemian art scene. Over the next weeks, local musicians, percussionists, poets, and beat makers came together, sketching out ideas and recording free improvisation. Winqvist returned to Sweden, trading recordings back and forth over WhatsApp with Senegal based collaborator and studio engineer Arouna Kane.
“Yaral Sa Doom” is a Wolof phrase that means “educate the young.” Central to the album is this theme of education, with songs that directly address social issues facing contemporary Senegal, education, and immigration. "Today you must educate children with an instrument and art, when you teach them an instrument you teach them to use their spirit," says Djiby Ly.
i like it! i find it very playful and joyful, and it covers a lot of ground genre-wise. one song is like a trap beat with a wind section over it, much of it is the shaggy groovy guitar-heavy african jazz i also associate with some of mulatu astatke's work. one of the songs is almost an ambient track. it's good for me
i found this album by going through the bandcamp collection/wishlist of an artist that i really look up to. highly recommend doing this, there were so many heaters in there