| Djam Leelii | ||||
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| Released | 1989 | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Genre | Senegalese music | |||
| Label | Mango | |||
| Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck chronology | ||||
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Djam Leelii is the first collaborative studio album by the Senegalese musicians Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck, released in 1989. [1] [2] It was recorded in 1984. A 1998 reissue from Palm Records raised the number of tracks to twelve.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [3] |
| Chicago Tribune | [4] |
| Robert Christgau | A− [5] |
The Washington Post wrote: "The album's eight selections range from the entrancing 'Lamtooro' and 'Muudo Hormo', tunes that achieve the spiritual grace and calm that so much New Age music aspires to but seldom delivers, to the more percussive, rhythmically contagious 'Salminanam'." [6] The Chicago Tribune noted that "accessible melodies suggest American folk-blues, ethereal ECM-styled jazz and even modern classical music." [4]
Robert Christgau concluded that, "for postindustrialized listeners, the interplay of recurring guitar patterns and penetrating Afro-Islamic voices adds up to background music with soul." [5] Folk Roots named the album the best of 1989. [7]
J. Poet of AllMusic commented that "two guitars, accented by a bit of African percussion and some tasty electric fills by Aziz Dieng, produce pure magic." [3] The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . [8]
All tracks by Baaba Maal
† The last 4 tracks were absent from the original release.
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