From Senegal to the world : 80s classics & rarities

"Sadly, anyone anticipating a satisfying retrospective featuring the very best from this mercurial star's back pages is likely to be disappointed. A straightforward best-of this is not, as its 80s Classics and Rarities subtitle goes some way to conveying the truth behind its 28 tracks: that much of N'Dour's very best material emerged after the 80s had been and gone".

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"There are now many reissues and collections documenting N'Dour's prolific career, but this two-CD Nascente box set is valid in its capturing of an essential period for N'Dour, on the cusp of becoming Senegal's Number One cultural ambassador and subsequently forging his own way with homegrown studio Xippi. The first CD here is collated from those classic tapes - vibrant and visceral with their many shifts in tempo and dynamic. The second is taken from his early international releases on Virgin - a pared-down (dumbed-down for the Western ear) version of mbalax, but infectious just the same".