Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In record producer Joe Boyd\u2019s magisterial book And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, a history of World Music as an industry and Boyd\u2019s own not-inconsiderable part in it, he recalls one of Youssou N\u2019Dour\u2019s band members telling him that \u201c7 Seconds\u201d \u2014 N\u2019Dour\u2019s hit duet with Neneh Cherry \u2014 was \u201cthe worst catastrophe ever to happen to Senegalese music\u201d. His reasoning was that its success pushed the Dakar superstar into pursuing a shinier, more westernised sound.Boyd, who once proposed a back-to-the-roots live recording of N\u2019Dour\u2019s mbalax, only to be angrily rebuffed, had his own reasons to be sceptical about the musician\u2019s glossy production. But it remains true that N\u2019Dour\u2019s early promise, with his 1984 breakthrough album Immigr\u00e9s and his work as bandleader of Super \u00c9toile de Dakar, has only fitfully been manifested throughout his recording career, where collaborations (with Cherry, with Peter Gabriel) outshine some very watered-down albums. The backwards-looking History, from 2019, felt at the time like a magician\u2019s farewell to his art.\u00c9clairer Le Monde (Light The World) is not a perfect album, but it deploys its singer better than many of its predecessors. The most recent recording from N\u2019Dour\u2019s only real Senegalese rival, Baaba Maal, saw Swedish producer Johan Karlsberg double down on percussion, both real and artificial, and N\u2019Dour\u2019s producers, Michael League and Weedie Braimah, do the same here. The flourish of talking drum and percussion at the start of the opener \u201cTout Pour Briller\u201d has the punchiness of N\u2019Dour\u2019s early songs that poured out of the radios of Paris taxis in the mid-1980s, which makes up for generic lyrics about self-improvement. There are feminist turns on \u201cSa Ma Habiibi\u201d, with a nagging lope to its condemnation of forced marriage, and \u201cSay Thank You\u201d, a tribute to mothers.The singer\u2019s son Nelson choruses in behind Rema Diop on the jaunty football anthem \u201cOn L\u2019a Fait\u201d, with terrace chanting. Another, less boisterous highlight comes on \u201cSam Fall\u201d, a tribute to the Baye Fall, an Islamic sect, with League locking acoustic guitar with N\u2019Dour\u2019s longtime guitarist Tapha Gaye. Whether or not \u00c9clairer Le Monde lights up the charts, it is a shining return to form.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018\u00c9clairer Le Monde (Light The World)\u2019 is released by The Orchard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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