Senegal

A 28-minute instrumental journey across Senegal — six cities in one continuous arc, from the sabar-drum mbalax of Dakar to the stripped-down rail-junction mbalax of Thiès. No vocals; pure instrumental storytelling.

Each track is composed from the music of its place: the seven-drum sabar ensemble and pitch-bending tama of Dakar, Africa's hip-hop hub and mbalax capital; the languid Latin-jazz and 21-string kora of colonial river-island Saint-Louis, home of the jazz festival; the forest-deep Jola ekonting and bougarabou of Casamance, a world apart from the Wolof north; the devotional oud and ney breath-music of Touba, the Mouride Sufi pilgrimage city; and the tama-led Serer njuup of Kaolack, grounded in the groundnut-basin and the Sine-Saloum delta.