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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S4E14: Baaba Maal

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt meet the singer and guitarist Baaba Maal.

Born and raised in Senegal, Baaba has long been a champion of ensuring the sounds of Africa are heard across the globe.

He’s worked with other artists from Brian Eno to Mumford and Sons and created the soundtrack for the Black Panther movies. Baaba Maal releases his new album on March 31st called ‘Being’. His first in 7 years.

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.


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Hello Gary. Hello Guy.

0:33.0

Guy.

0:34.0

Guy. World music.

0:36.0

What does world music mean?

0:38.0

I mean, it's such a catch-all, isn't it?

0:41.0

I mean, it seems almost unfair just to label everything

0:43.8

that's outside of Western rock and roll world music. I agree it's like best foreign

0:48.0

film it's a ridiculous thing but it was kind of invented after Wormont because there was a big thing I used to listen to quite a lot of African music and various other music, but there wasn't there just wasn't an umbrella term and you're right it is a terrible generalization but I would say our

1:05.3

guest this week does sort of encompass world music in that he does bring in stuff

1:12.0

from everywhere he does but it's a sort of folk music in that sense, isn't it, really?

1:16.8

That's the genre, really, because it's like, you know, he's brought in, you know, Celtic music

1:22.1

from Afro-Celt sound system and he's worked obviously with Mumford and

1:27.2

Sons with Brian Eno and Cuban music, you know, that's sort of...

1:31.2

Yeah, Cuban music, when he's got very much in agreement with, which is how,

1:37.7

how the roots of sort of so much of all that music comes from Africa which it clearly does.

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