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Tilé 06:07
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Djanfa 05:10
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Wasso 06:00
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Folon 05:20
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I kanafo 05:21
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Siguisso 03:52
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Juguya 05:15

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Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary group from Burkina Faso. Coming from Bobo-Dioulasso, the group is steeped in the Mandingue musical traditions of their ancestral legacy. The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in the Burkinabé musical community. A sort of punk Faso Dan Fani activist for traditional Mandingo music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he embarked on his current musical direction as a singer first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band.

His current band — when he’s not playing with the now-famous Burkinabé musician Victor Démé — is the Mandingo Band. At present, he is a practitioner of the Afrobeat style, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Nigerian music. Fela Kuti/Africa 70 and King Sunny Adé are big influences, as is the legendary Malian growler Moussa Doumbia.

Baba Commandant plays the ngoni, the instrument of the Donso (the traditional hunters in this region of Burkina Faso and Mali). His audience comprises multiple generations and strata of Burkinabé society; he accordingly adapts his repertoire to his surroundings, which range from cabaret Sundays in Bobo-Dioulasso to the sound systems of Ouagadougou.

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a formidable force steeped in Ouagadougou’s DIY underground musical culture. Juguya is their sound.

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released October 3, 2015

Balafon – Diarra Salif*, Coulibaly Sekou*
Bass – Massimbo Taragna
Compiled By – Sublime Frequencies
Design [Graphic Design By] – Kate Widdows
Drums – Sana Mohamed Fahade
Guitar – Diabate Issouf*, Simon Chenet
Liner Notes [Edited By] – Hisham Mayet
Mastered By [Final Audio Mastering By] – Mark Gergis
Mixed By [Final Mix By] – Camille Louvel, Colin Thevenin, Hisham Mayet
Percussion – Ouari Mamadou
Producer [Original Production] – Camille Louvel
Recorded By, Engineer – Camille Louvel, Colin Thevenin
Saxophone – Yizih
Vocals – Sanou Mamadou
Vocals [Singers] – Diarra Fousseni, Diabate Awa*, Konate Mamadou*, Démé Victor*

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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