Radio Manu, Papa Tchango.

This episode features Carly David's

who is an animal photographer.

Before we get into my little rant here, I thought I would play a song from Orchestra

Baobab, which is a really cool band who were famous in the 70s.

I mean, famous, they played.

I think they're from Senegal and they were pretty popular in the capital,

which I believe is Dacá.

And then they sort of broke up and somehow their cassettes got out to Paris

and they became like an underground cult favorite again and the surviving members got back together

and recorded a couple of albums recently, maybe 10, 15 years ago.

They're really interesting because what they specialize in is playing covers of Cuban music.

So I think I may have played one of their songs on a previous episode or at least a piece of one.

I'm going to play a whole song here.

El son de Yama, I think this is called.

And so what they do is they play Cuban music that is based on African music, of course,

as pretty much all Cuban music is.

So you'll hear them. They're singing and Spanish.

Those of you who speak Spanish will recognize their singing and Spanish.

But these are definitely not Cuban dudes.

These are African dudes singing covers of Cuban songs, which are themselves cultural covers of African rhythms

and it's fucking cool and it's something that can only happen in the 21st century.

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