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Djam Leelii

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Released
  
1989

Artists
  
Baaba Maal, Mansour Seck

Label
  
Yoff Productions

Djam Leelii(1989)
  
Wango(1994)

Release date
  
1989

Genre
  
World music

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Similar
  
Baaba Maal albums, World music albums

Baaba maal mansour seck lam tooro


Djam Leelii is the first widely distributed album of Senegalese musician Baaba Maal and guitarist Mansour Seck. Several of the tracks have been released on Baaba Maal's later releases. It was originally recorded in 1984 and released in 1989 by Mango Records. A 1998 edition from Palm Records raised the number of tracks to twelve. The album was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Contents

Baaaba maal mansour seck djam leelii full album


Reception

Reviewer J. Poet of AllMusic commented that "Two guitars, accented by a bit of African percussion and some tasty electric fills by Aziz Dieng, produce pure magic".

Track listing

All tracks by Baaba Maal

  1. "Lam Tooro" – 6:40
  2. "Loodo" – 6:11
  3. "Muudo Hormo" – 6:13
  4. "Salminanam" – 4:29
  5. "Maacina Tooro" – 5:49
  6. "Djam Leelii" – 6:02
  7. "Bibbe Leydy" – 6:27
  8. "Sehilam" – 6:24
  9. "Kettodee" – 4:54
  10. "Ko Wone Mayo" – 9:29 †
  11. "Daande Lenol" – 4:34 †
  12. "Taara" – 5:23 †

† The last 3 tracks were absent from the original release.

Personnel

  • Baaba Maal, Mansour Seck - vocals, acoustic guitars
  • Aziz Dieng - electric guitar
  • Mamad Kouyate - kora (harp-lute)
  • Jombo Kouyate - balafon (idiophone)
  • Papa Dieye - percussion

    • Songs

    1Lam Tooro6:42
    2Loodo6:11
    3Muudo Hormo6:14

    References

    Djam Leelii Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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