{"id":112026,"date":"2022-09-20T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=112026"},"modified":"2022-09-20T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:20:55","slug":"wau-wau-collectif-mariage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wau-wau-collectif-mariage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Children at the center of Mariage, Wau Wau Collectif\u2019s second album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wau-wau-collectif-an-unclassifiable-union\/\">unclassifiable union<\/a> between Swedish producer Karl Jonas Winqvist and musicians from the Toubab Dialaw village in Senegal returns with a second album which expands on the theme explored in their debut.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After a chance encounter back in 2018 with musicians, percussionists, poets and beatmakers from the small Senegalese fishing village of Toubab Dialaw, Swedish producer Karl Jonas Winqvist went back to Sweden with some recorded mementos. From that moment on, he continued to exchange sounds through WhatsApp with Arouna Kane, the Senegal-based collaborator and studio engineer with whom they had recorded back in Senegal. Thus, the Wau Wau Collectif came to be and their first album <em>Yaral Sa Doom, <\/em>which captured their <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wau-wau-collectif-yaral-sa-doom\/\">avant-garde cosmic sound<\/a>, was released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it so happened they had kept enough material to produce a second one as the Swedish producer implied during <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wau-wau-collectif-an-unclassifiable-union\/\">an interview<\/a> given to PAM in 2021: \u201c<em>We recorded so much material and me and Aruna sent overdubs, ideas and new songs to each other up till last week, so the songs on Yaral Sa Doom ended up on that album because they were ready first. But there were just as many other songs waiting and almost finished<\/em>\u201d. It was not completely out of the blue that we learned about <em>Mariage. <\/em>It is dedicated to the late Ousmane Ba, whose flute can be heard throughout \u201cNecessaire\u201d and \u201cMariage Forc\u00e9\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Wau Wau Collectif - Xale (Toubab Dialaw Kids Rhyme)  - official audio\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMKs3QuMIzw?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Wau Wau Collectif &#8211; Xale (Toulab Dialaw Kids Rhyme)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Like their debut album which dealt with youth education as its title suggests (<em>Yaral Sa Doom <\/em>means \u201ceducating young people\u201d in Wolof), <em>Mariage <\/em>expands upon the same themes. In the reggae inspired \u201cYonou Natangue,\u201d the Wau Wau Collectif promotes \u201c<em>youth education to address the social issues facing contemporary Senega<\/em>l\u201d. \u201c<em>I just think that education should be offered to all young children in an equal way. It shouldn\u2019t just be young kids learning from old people. It can work the other way around, also.<\/em>\u201d Winqvist\u2019s statement is made clear in the single \u201cXale\u201d in which children are given the central role. The track is constructed around the children\u2019s song, around which other supporting sounds are gradually introduced, first thumping hip-hop beats, then the guitar, then the synth\u2019s keys, as if the players were learning from the children\u2019s voices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wauwaucollectif.bandcamp.com\/album\/mariage\" target=\"_blank\">Mariage<\/a> <\/em><\/em>out November 11th via Sahel Sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Xale&#8221; in our <a href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/SongsWeekPAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Songs of the Week<\/a> playlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/mariage_wau_wau.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unclassifiable union between Swedish producer Karl Jonas Winqvist and musicians from the Toubab Dialaw village in Senegal returns with a second album which expands on the theme explored in their debut. 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