Bandcamp pick of the week: Senegal 70 - Analog Africa

4 years in the making, here's an excellent compilation of Senegalese music from the '60s and '70s, surfaced by Analog Africa in partnership with Teranga Beat, the current leading label for Senegalese music.

Thanks to its history of outside influences, Senegal - the western point of Africa - had become a musical melting pot. Cuban and American sailors had brought Son Montuno from Cuba, Jazz from New Orleans and American soul tunes: sounds that were swiftly embraced and adopted by urban dance bands and intuitively merged with local music styles.

Splendid afro funk, afrobeat, brazilian, cumbia, Mbalax, Cuban Son, Mandigue and beyond, released on November 2015 by Frankfurt based record label Analog Africa.