Cinq ans après l'album Bamba Gueej, Cheikh Lô, artiste à part du monde musical sénégalais, revient avec Lamp Fall, un album qui poursuit son chemin hors des sentiers battus, cette fois entre Brésil et ...
Cheikh Lo is from Senagal, but his music is steeped in rhythms from all over the world. In fact, many of the rhythms for his new CD came from work he did in Brazil with producer Nick Gold, known for ...
Avec une exigence en termes de production et de rendu sonore qui ne faiblit pas au fil du temps et participe de son succès international, le chanteur et multiinstrumentiste sénégalais Cheikh Lô reste ...
The West African nation of Senegal is home of two of the biggest stars in modern world music, Youssou N'Dour and Baaba Maal, whose output has ranged from sabar drum-driven mbalax and other local ...
Cheikh Lô vient de fêter ses cinquante ans de carrière et sort un album intitulé Maame. Le chanteur et musicien y résume l'essentiel du savoir-faire qu'il a accumulé en un demi-siècle de carrière. Un ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest crowds basked in sounds from across the globe Saturday as Senegalese performer Cheikh Lo offered a performance as colorful and unique as his signature patchwork tunic. The ...
The album is laid-back and glossily produced. Previously, Lo had been on the revered world music label World Circuit (home of the Buena Vista Social Club) but this is on a newish Paris label called ...
In the end I realised there’s a Buena Vista Social Club user-friendliness about Lo’s studio work, particularly - needless to say - on the songs which have a strong Cuban influence. So my only hope was ...
Show: Wednesday at Lisner Auditorium. Show starts at 8 p.m. 202-994-6800. www.lisner.org. $15-$45. Like many West African singers, Cheikh Lo performs in various languages. These include Wolof, which ...
D’une incroyable finesse, Jamm ("la paix") prouve que le Sénégalais Cheikh Lô, sait tout faire, du mbalax à la salsa, avec un groove contemporain unique. D’une incroyable finesse, Jamm ("la paix") ...
Dans la lignée de Youssou N'Dour, son chant nasal griotique et ses textes résolument modernes collent au Mbalax avec des influences jazz, reggae, salsa. Musicien sénégalais, Cheikh N'Digel Lô est né ...
Lamp Fall redefines the meaning of fusion as Cheikh Lo breathes new life into the genre, seamlesly mixing and blending various influences and sounds from around the globe to create his own style. This ...