Wau Wau Collectif

Wau Wau Collectif – Mariage (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:21 minutes | 692 MB | Genre: World, Afrobeat, Dub, Electronic, Psychedelic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sahel Sounds

Wau Wau Collectif’s second album, Mariage, is instilled with a newfound sense of purpose. Expanding upon the inspirational themes of their acclaimed 2021 debut, Yaral Sa Doom (Educate The Young), this long-distance collaboration from musicians in Senegal, led by Aurora Kane, and Sweden’s Karl Jonas Winqvist is an even more stylistically expansive affair. Joyful children’s songs collide with fuzzy guitar solos and thumping hip-hop beats. Shimmering synths lift off from the plunky percussion of the balafon and versatile sounds of the 22-string kora. Familiar voices from the first album return with more explicitly political lyrics, while the music feels both rhythmically dense and sonically weightless, flowing from one spellbinding moment to the next.

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Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:10 minutes | 388 MB | Genre: World, Funk, Afrobeat
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sahel Sounds

Avant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal, “Yaral Sa Doom” is a groundbreaking album spanning borders and musical scenes. Inspired from West African tradition, Sufi praise songs, spiritual jazz, and dub rhythms, the effect is a genre defying entry in outernational sound. Hypnotic percussion loops across sweeping pads, call and response chants echoes layer over electronic beats, and children’s voices sing out to recordings of crashing waves.

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