First track from Moussa Ngom's cassette Banjul
In the early nineties Moussa had left Super Diamono but had yet to record anything of note. Then Lamine Faye guitarist and arranger also left Omar Pene's band and started to collect together the musicians who would later be called Lemzo Diamono. They met up and produced what to my ears is Moussa's best recording. Lamine's arrangements are bursting with creative ideas, spikey keyboards and fuzztone guitar. The percussion is all manding hand drums, propelling the music with rolling rhythms quite different from the usual Mbalax style. The cassette was a monster hit in Moussa's native Gambia.
14 июл 2011
