Specialist in All Styles
Orchestra Baobab
Afro-Cuban / WorldA reunion record made thirty years after the band's commercial peak, this one required no nostalgia to justify its existence. The ensemble's combination of Cuban son, Wolof griot tradition, and West African rhythm came back fully intact, and the production by Nick Gold gave it presence without polishing away the looseness that defines the group. Buena Vista Social Club comparisons were inevitable but reductive.
