Orchestra Baobab's fusion is far more subtle, and always rooted in traditional music. Of course, nothing here is as crass as, say, rap-metal.
Six years later, Made in Dakar continues the voyage with still more seamless style blending. Equally informed by Cuban and indigenous African musics, not to mention hybrids like Congolese rumba and Senegal's own pop strain mbalax, the disc found them picking up where they left off. Orchestra Baobab's aptly titled 2002 comeback disc, Specialist in All Styles, encapsulated many of the ever-evolving group's strengths, in particular their knack for musical assimilation.
