Cheick Tidiane Seck - Guerrier 2013

Over the years, the musical exchanges between Africa and the West have been fascinating. African rhythms have had a direct or indirect impact on a variety of musical genres that started in the West -- everything from jazz, blues, R&B, and rap in the United States, to salsa, bachata-merengue, plena, samba, and cumbia in Latin America. And things came full circle when many of those western art forms influenced African pop in countries ranging from Ethiopia to Mozambique to Nigeria. The western influence is also quite strong in the Afro-pop of Mali, where Cheick-Tidiane Seck was born and raised. Recorded in 1999, 2002, and 2003 in three different cities (Paris, New York, and Los Angeles),MandinGroove thrives on the sort of east-meets-west energy that Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade,Habib Koité, Mahmoud Ahmed, and the late Fela Kuti are all known for. AMG.

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