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accras · 2 years
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The musical performance that introduced director Ryan Coogler and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in Hall H at SDCC 2022.
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groovesnjams · 5 months
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"Freak Out" by Baaba Maal ft. The Very Best
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One of the year's most dynamic songs, "Freak Out" is propulsive and driving, even as it drops into an extended bridge that becomes one of the song's most compelling parts. Credit where it's due to producer Johan Karlberg, who's become something of an expert at alchemizing acoustic and electronic sounds into something that sounds uniquely fresh and vital through his work with The Very Best and (more recently) Self Esteem. But "Freak Out" is one of the year's best because of how adeptly it transitions between Baaba Maal's keening vocal and Esau Mwamwaya's honeyed one and back again, distortion and beauty playing off each other and balanced adeptly, gloriously. This isn't the first collaboration between the two, but it's the best expression of the electricity in their combined approach to date - let's hope it won't be the last.
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In its darkness and unrelenting drive, there is something almost Motorik about “Freak Out,” but where Krautrock felt like a geometric line, never beginning or ending just stretching endlessly straight, Baaba Maal and The Very Best are circular, more like sharks surrounding their prey than Volvo on the highway. All that churning, the sensation of swaying on top of the black waters which are about to consume you, is so compelling it verges on addictive. There are worse ways to die than lost in a perpetual groove, subsumed by pounding rhythms.
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soundgrammar · 6 months
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Listen/purchase: Yerimayo Celebration by Baaba Maal
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4trackcassette · 1 year
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New Video: Baaba Maal Teams Up with The Very Best on Mesmerizing "Freak Out"
New Video: Baaba Maal Teams Up with The Very Best on Mesmerizing "Freak Out" @baabamaal @marathonartists @bighasslemedia
Acclaimed Senegalse singer/songwriter and guitarist Baaba Maal is a member of the semi-nomadic Fulani people. He first left his home in Podor, Senegal to perform music hundreds of miles away as a teenager — and he has been a wanderer ever since. “It’s part of my culture,” Maal says. “The songs travel from village to village, from country to country. It’s something natural to my tribe and this…
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mistavybe · 2 years
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The Wakanda Forever presentation kicked off with a rousing musical performance by musicians Baaba Maal, Massamba Diop, along with dancers and drummers, followed by an intro from director Ryan Coogler.
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[Coogler] shared a sweet story about his first appearance at Comic-Con sitting next to late star Chadwick Boseman, and how the actor expressed his excitement over seeing the first footage from the film by squeezing Coogler's shoulder.
"He was really strong and he was getting excited and as the clip went on he was squeezing my shoulder the whole time and when it finished, I couldn't even lift my arm," Coogler recalled. "I felt his hand for the rest of that day. Standing here with you all, listening to that music and thinking about it all, I promise you I can feel his hand on me right now."
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He continued: "Chad is no longer with us physically but his spirit, his passion, his genius, his pride in his culture and the impact that he made on this industry will be felt forever. We put our love for Chadwick into this film and we also put our passion." it's a roller coaster of a movie."
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Cast members in attendance included: Mabel Cadena, Michaela Cole, Winston Duke, Danai Gurira, Tenoch Huerta, Florence Kasumba, Alex Livinalli, Lupita Nyong'o, Dominique Thorne and Letitia Wright -- several of whom expressed their emotions in being back at Comic-Con, celebrating the sequel with their film family.
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"One of the biggest moments [I've experienced recently] is watching these amazing artists," said Gurira, about watching the opening musical performance. "I was raised in southern Africa, where my parents are from in Zimbabwe and I was always looking up to America and how it made superheroes on the big screen, so to see that merging happening, seeing all your cameras up and you're taking in that culture and you're celebrating it, that to me is everything. That is what I got to be a part of."
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Wakanda Forever
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yvesbuprofen · 2 years
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heermirza · 2 years
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One on One with Mak Adem The Nyatiti Man
Makadem is one of Kenya’s most talented Afro fusion artist. He is popularly known as the Nyatiti man, but some still remember him from the good ol’ days when he was popularly known as the Ohangla man. Right after high school, he started performing music and since then he’s produced multiple albums full of contemporary compositions that celebrate the energy and lively spirit of Kenya. His music…
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simonwest369 · 2 years
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soundgrammar · 6 months
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Senegalese singer and guitarist Baaba Maal (born June 13, 1953)
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a-new-kind-of-water · 4 months
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