Daara J Family
School Of Life (CD)

WRASS262

After 6 years Daara J Family will release a new album on May 24th, The band has written the most personal, ‘cross-over’ album since their formation ( 1992 )
When Africa is your homeland and Dakar your playground, when the soundtrack of your childhood mixes traditional Senegalese music with James Brown, when the explosive sounds of Public Enemy radically changes your musical vision the result is School of Life.
For Faada Freddy and N’Dongo D, Hip Hop came naturally to them, they began by rapping in their wolof dialect as Daara J, and the world was not able to resist them, they performed more than 1,000 concerts, opening for Wyclef Jean and Mos Def, headlining WOMAD and winning the BBC World Music Award
Downsizing to just the two founding members, the project took the name of Daara J Family, fortified by a new creative spirit uniting New York, Dakar, Paris, and Kingston on a mesmerising musical journey which could only belong to them: “Celebrate” the powerful rant of “School of life”, the tribal spirit of “Sun afreeca”, the sultry languor of “Tomorrow
Pulsating through the entire album like blood through a main artery are the rhythmic and hypnotic melodies of Africa.
N’Dongo D’s raw voice is a perfect complement to Faada Freddys’ vocal surges… And once again they prove that they just know how to write beautiful songs…

Track listing:

1.Bayi Yoon
2.Celebrate
3.Tomorrow
4.Children
5.Temps Boy
6.Potu Nda
7.Positif
8.School of Life
9.Ohy Why
10.Sun Afreeca
11.Gates of Freedom

Published: 2010

Genre: Africa & Percussion & Didgeridoo
Label: Wrasse Records