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Wau Wau Collectif’s trans-national sonic adventure began in 2018, when Swedish music archeologist and leftfield musician Karl Jonas Winqvist traveled to Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, a small fishing village turned hub of Senegal’s bohemian art scene.
During his time at an artistic residency in the village, Winqvist joined a series of improvised jams at the arts hotel Sobo Badé. His extensive stay and bond with the musicians led to them continuing their collaboration after Winqvist’s departure, trading overdubs with his collaborators over WhatsApp with the help of producer Arouna Kane.
While being conscious of his place navigating Senegalese culture as a White Swedish person, Winqvist remains humbled by the unique opportunity to collaborate with such talented musicians.
The result, 2021’s Yaral Sa Doom (a Wolof phrase meaning “educate the young”), is an album of dreamy, featherlight songs with over 20 contributors, described by Pitchfork as “uniformly gorgeous and brimming with mutual pleasure.” Their second album, Mariage, takes some of the initial recording’s foundational rhythms into new collaborative territory together with the core group’s players, including flute master Ousmane Ba, rapper Babacar “Babadi” Diol and vocalist Arouna Kane alongside new contributors to create more “avant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal”.
During his time at an artistic residency in the village, Winqvist joined a series of improvised jams at the arts hotel Sobo Badé. His extensive stay and bond with the musicians led to them continuing their collaboration after Winqvist’s departure, trading overdubs with his collaborators over WhatsApp with the help of producer Arouna Kane.
While being conscious of his place navigating Senegalese culture as a White Swedish person, Winqvist remains humbled by the unique opportunity to collaborate with such talented musicians.
The result, 2021’s Yaral Sa Doom (a Wolof phrase meaning “educate the young”), is an album of dreamy, featherlight songs with over 20 contributors, described by Pitchfork as “uniformly gorgeous and brimming with mutual pleasure.” Their second album, Mariage, takes some of the initial recording’s foundational rhythms into new collaborative territory together with the core group’s players, including flute master Ousmane Ba, rapper Babacar “Babadi” Diol and vocalist Arouna Kane alongside new contributors to create more “avant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal”.
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