Aby Ngana Diop's "Liital" on LP/CD/Digital/Tape https://abynganadiop.bandcamp.com

Aby Ngana Diop was the most famous taasukat in Dakar, Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. Taasu is a Wolof-language poetic style, usually performed by women griots over frenetic drum patterns, with an aggressive verbal flow thought to presage rap. Her only album Liital was groundbreaking in the history of Senegalese music because it was the first commercial recording to feature a traditional female taasukat performing to the modern accompaniment of mbalax, Senegal’s quintessential pop genre.

Aby Ngana Diop—Dieuleul-Dieuleul

Live at the Northcote Social Club, Melbourne - Monday Night Mass 12th September 2011

Recorded by Morgan McWaters

Mixed by Night Orchids at Head Gap  - 3rd and 4th May 2012

Skyway

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