Cheikh Lô – Maame (World Circuit, 2025) A decade has passed since Cheikh Lô last offered a studio album, and Maame feels like a homecoming…
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Lô composed and arranged everything, and the authority shows. Because he handles so many parts himself, guitar, drums, timbales, congas, shakers, lead, and backing vocals, the performances feel intimate, even when the music surges.
The range is wide, Afro-acoustic meditations sit beside African salsa and high-energy mbalax, with Afro-blues, reggae, Afropop, classical colors, jazz dialects, and traditional rumba passing through like well-traveled cousins.
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