Baba maal biography

The Traveller evokes the pleasures of journeying and the satisfactions of homecoming. “No matter how long I might be away, wherever I am, and whatever I am doing,” Baaba explains, “I will always return to Fouta to feed my soul.” It opens with Fulani Rock, a high-energy, djembe-driven tribute to his homeland, and Gilli Men, a stately mantra featuring the Dakar Church Choir.

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One Day and Kalaajo combine quicksilver guitar work with spacious electronic production. From the Podor sessions with Marshall and Dwayne, Lampenda is a surging, uplifting homage to his fisherman heritage and Traveller is the album’s explosively joyful centrepiece.

The last two tracks, Peace and War, feature celebrated Lancashire writer Lemn Sissay, who was the official poet of the London Olympics.

Baaba met Lemn in London at the Africa Utopia festival which Baaba co-produces every year with the Southbank Centre in London. The two men had long conversations about the state of the world which led to Sissa