{"id":535,"date":"2007-02-23T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=535"},"modified":"2018-08-19T07:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:07:17","slug":"el-hadj-ndiaye-%c2%a0-xel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"el hadj N\u2019diaye \u2014&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">XEL<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9268\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/07-02-23-LISTN-el-hadj-N\u2019diaye-XEL.jpg\" alt=\"07-02-23 LISTN el hadj N\u2019diaye - XEL\" width=\"201\" height=\"297\"><\/a><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->Even with\u00adin the fab\u00adu\u00adlous cor\u00adnu\u00adcopia of West African music, el hadj N\u2019diaye\u2019s <em>Xel<\/em> (2001) is a excep\u00adtional trea\u00adsure. N\u2019diaye takes a jour\u00adney beyond the famil\u00adiar <em>mbal\u00adax<\/em> beat of Senegal\u2019s pop\u00adu\u00adlar music to explore more var\u00adied ter\u00adri\u00adtory. Some of the rhythms and gui\u00adtar work could have come out of a Clap\u00adton album. But they are blend\u00aded per\u00adfectly with African drums and balo\u00adfon. The balo\u00adfon solo on the song \u201cCasa di mansa\u201d is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly beau\u00adti\u00adful. This is a trag\u00adic song about the ill-fat\u00aded seces\u00adsion\u00adist move\u00adment in south\u00adern Sene\u00adgal, sung in French and Eng\u00adlish. Most of the songs on the album are sung in Wolof, Senegal\u2019s pri\u00admary lan\u00adguage. But the emo\u00adtions in them are so pow\u00ader\u00adful that you have the odd feel\u00ading that you under\u00adstand every word. \u201cYoon wil\u201d, \u201cXale bi\u201d and \u201cYu sew yii\u201d moved me in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar. This entire album com\u00adbines a refine\u00adment and pre\u00adci\u00adsion of per\u00adfor\u00admance with intense emo\u00adtions: bit\u00adter\u00adness, sad\u00adness, yearn\u00ading, remorse. I will play this album over and over again, and I\u2019ll do my best to find more of N\u2019diaye\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with\u00adin the fab\u00adu\u00adlous cor\u00adnu\u00adcopia of West African music, el hadj N\u2019diaye\u2019s Xel (2001) is a excep\u00adtional trea\u00adsure. N\u2019diaye takes a jour\u00adney beyond the famil\u00adiar mbal\u00adax beat of Senegal\u2019s pop\u00adu\u00adlar music to explore more var\u00adied ter\u00adri\u00adtory. Some of the rhythms&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=535\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-ct-listening-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}