The gliding ease of Specialist in All Styles doesn’t even hint at the long and tortuous road that led to its arrival. Orchestra Baobab no longer existed when World Circuit label founder Nick Gold ...
The band was popular in Senegal throughout the ’70s, but when the funkier mbalax sound swept through Dakar in the ’80s, Baobab suddenly sounded old hat. It broke up in 1987. But World Circuit‘s 2001 ...