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Les premiers disques sortent en 1972, et puis en 1975, sur leur nouveau label d\u00e9di\u00e9, Buur Records (le roi), c\u2019est un feu d\u2019artifice avec cinq albums dans l\u2019ann\u00e9e. Des titres fameux comme Guy Gu Rey Gi (on en reparlera) et le non moins c\u00e9l\u00e8bre <strong>Bawobab 75<\/strong>. Sur celui-ci <strong>l\u2019Orchestre du Bawobab<\/strong> fait briller l\u2019afro-latin groove dans lequel il excelle. Rumba, bol\u00e9ro, soup\u00e7on de boogaloo, avec ce parfum mandingue inimitable qui donne tout son sel \u00e0 six titres qui flirtent aussi avec le funk (<em>Saf Mana Dem<\/em>), en pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 un mbalax qui ne dit pas encore son nom. Parmi les chanteurs, on retrouve Thione Seck qui sera justement l\u2019un des grands repr\u00e9sentants du mbalax, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Youssou N\u2019dour ou encore Baaba Maal. Enfin, derri\u00e8re les consoles du studio, c\u2019est Jules Sagna qui officie, qui sera quelques ann\u00e9es plus tard, \u00e0 l\u2019origine de l\u2019orchestre Rytmo Africa, avec Alfredo de la F\u00e9. L\u2019orchestre Baobab enregistrera ensuite pour Syllart, puis disparaitra en 1985, avant de rena\u00eetre en 2001, sous l\u2019impulsion du label World Circuit Records, celui-l\u00e0 m\u00eame qui venait de ressusciter le Buena Vista Social Club.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3 \ud83c\udfb8 \ud83c\udfa4 \ud83c\udf0d \ud83d\udd25 Bawobab ou Baobab\u00a0? Le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre orchestre s\u00e9n\u00e9galais voit le jour au tout d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 70 autour des chanteurs Ablaye Mboup et Balla Sidib\u00e9, et des guitaristes Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Attiso et Mohamed Lafti Ben Geloum. Rapidement l\u2019orchestre s\u2019\u00e9toffe et se produit au Club Baobab \u00e0 Dakar, auquel il emprunte son nom. 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