Artist.......: Toubabou
Album........: Attente Le ble et le mil
Label........: PROGRESSION
Genre........: Fusion
Catnr........: MPM02
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Sep-10-2009
str.date.....: 2004
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
cd1
01. Youvalou rada (La nature en personne) 03:55
02. Le Chant des Choses 03:13
03. J'Freak Assez 07:55
04. Ambush (Guet-Apens) 03:30
05. Pylone 05:51
06. Doudou a la Toubadou 08:54
07. Attente 03:48
08. Mon Tambour 03:47
cd2
01. Oasis 10:11
02. Man Yaka Ghane 06:24
03. Ambush 07:15
04. Noumoulou 03:11
05. Carignan 03:23
06. Yama Nekh 04:49
07. Doudou N'Diaye et ses Rosettes 07:36
Runtime 83:42 min
Size 122,1 MB
Release Notes:
Toubabou is a sort of continuation of the
supergroup VEBB (Ville Emard Blues Band which was
anything but a blues band, most member having
played or will play in other Quebec major
progressive groups). Despite Stanley and Farmer
ending up in HARMONIUM and Lise Cousineau having
played in many groups before, the real leader is
percussioniste Michel Seguin (no relation with
twins Richard and Marie Claire Seeguin also on the
progressive front of music), the group even taking
their name after the nickname of Seguin given to
him by Africans friends: Toubabou Djebe Folla -
white men playing drums. The groups starts from the
meeting of students: artistes from Mali, Senegal
and Togo as a cultural exchange.
The first album will be recorded live at the
Superfrancofetes on the Abraham plains (where
Quebec had lost its independence over the loyalists
in the 18th century) in front of a crowd of 50
thousands . The thread of the album is to present
the two units one jazz rock (so typical of the
superb instrumental jazz-rock invogue in Quebec
around the time), the other playing traditional
African chants. As the concert unfolds there is
more and more interaction between the music, some
tracks veering towards Cajun music. The following
year, Toubabou will release a second album with two
new members including a brass player, the album
being quite different presenting a progressive
funk-jazz but the percussive elements still very
present.
Both Toubabou albums are highly recommended to
those really wanting to discover a textbook case of
fusion music.