{"title":"Wau Wau Collectif","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"yaral-sa-doom","title":"Yaral Sa Doom","description":"\u003cp\u003eAvant-garde cosmic sounds from Senegal, Wau Wau Collectif’s \u003ci\u003eYaral Sa Doom\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking album spanning borders and musical scenes. Inspired from West African tradition, Sufi praise songs, spiritual jazz, and dub rhythms, the effect is a genre defying entry in outernational sound. Hypnotic percussion loops across sweeping pads, call and response chants echoes layer over electronic beats, and children’s voices sing out to recordings of crashing waves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2018, 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. Over the next weeks, local musicians, percussionists, poets, and beat makers came together, sketching out ideas and recording free improvisation. Winqvist returned to Sweden, trading recordings back and forth over WhatsApp with Senegal based collaborator and studio engineer Arouna Kane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYaral Sa Doom\u003c\/i\u003e is a Wolof phrase that means “educate the young.” Central to the album is this theme of education, with songs that directly address social issues facing contemporary Senegal, education, and immigration. \"Today you must educate children with an instrument and art, when you teach them an instrument you teach them to use their spirit,\" says Djiby Ly. With over 20 contributing performers from Senegal and Sweden, Wau Wau Collectif’s debut is layered and complex, yet maintains a central vision. “It’s like diving into the sea,” explains Kane. “There are all different species of fish swimming around, but together they make the ocean.” Nonetheless, it's also a geographic anomaly, made possible only by exchange of the internet age. An exceptional recording on its own, \u003ci\u003eYaral Sa Doom\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary entry in the future of transglobal collaboration\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sahel Sounds","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50499114664267,"sku":"1109060","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6feffd2e-ba3f-4f1b-8a47-e6623366f860_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727768432"},{"product_id":"mariage","title":"Mariage","description":"\u003cp\u003eWau Wau Collectif’s second album, \u003ci\u003eMariage\u003c\/i\u003e, is instilled with a newfound sense of purpose. Expanding upon the inspirational themes of their acclaimed 2021 debut, Yaral Sa Doom (Educate The Young), this long distance collaboration from musicians in Senegal and Sweden’s Karl Jonas Winqvist is an even more stylistically expansive affair. Joyful children’s songs collide with fuzzy guitar solos and thumping hip-hop beats. Shimmering synths lift off from the plunky percussion of the balafon and versatile sounds of the 22-string kora. Familiar voices from the first album return with more explicitly political lyrics, while the music feels both rhythmically dense and sonically weightless, flowing from one spellbinding moment to the 6 next. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eMariage\u003c\/i\u003e, band members from each country were inspired to include a wider array of instrumental flourishes unique to their cross-continental collaboration. “Yay Balma” revolves around the cycling riffs of Jango Diabaté’s xalam guitar, as this song’s fuzzy tones and soaring sax solos open side two with a bang. “Pitchi Goubidi” provides a stark contrast, with the kora played like a harp and Gilbert Badji’s gravelly lyrics about “the bird of the night” disappearing into dubbed-out chamber pop. Winqvist’s Omnichord hovers back into focus on “Yonou Natangue,” a free-floating jam that maintains the messages of Wau Wau Collectif’s debut, promoting youth education to address the social issues facing contemporary Senegal: “Peace is the better wealth \/ The way to wander.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sahel Sounds","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":51123948716363,"sku":"1169830","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/05ec8934-8bbd-4712-8086-93c1fe56b399_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1737239098"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/wau-wau-collectif.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}