Aby Ngana Diop Liital

Name: Aby Ngana Diop - Liital
Brand: Awesome Tapes From Africa
SKU: 378404
Price: 24.13 USD
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Awesome Tapes From Africa | Item No: 378404

Vinyl LP | 2014 / US – Original | New

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Item Description

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.

After a few years of searching for Ms. Diop’s family members—she passed away from a heartattack in 1997—it took another year to get the release sorted it out but I’m happy to report this is all square with her family in Dakar (thanks to the help of a friendly professor from Boston who also contributed excellent liner notes).

Item Details

Item No:	378404
Artist:	Aby Ngana Diop
Title:	Liital
Label:	Awesome Tapes From Africa
Catalog No:	atfa010lp
Format:	Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing:	US – Original
Release Date:	2014
Genre:	Rock & Indie
Style:	Folk
Available since:	2014-09-10
Condition:	New
Price:	$ 24.13
Weight:	250g (plus 250g Packaging)

Tracklist

A1 Dieuleul-Dieuleul (Take It)

A2 Ndame (Success)

A3 Yaye Penda Mbaye

B1 Liital

B2 Sapaly (To Make Flavorful)

B3 Ndadje (To Meet)