Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band Juguya

• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Tile
• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Djanfa
• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Waso
• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Folon
• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Ntijiguimorola
• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – I Kanafo
• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Siguisso
• Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band – Juguya

• 1. Tile
• 2. Djanfa
• 3. Waso
• 4. Folon
• 5. Ntijiguimorola
• 6. I Kanafo
• 7. Siguisso
• 8. Juguya

**  Limited-edition LP housed in a Stoughton tip-on sleeve. **

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary group from Burkina Faso. Coming from Bobo-Dioulasso, the group is steeped in the Mandingue musical traditions of their ancestral legacy. The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in the Burkinabé musical community. A sort of punk Faso Dan Fani activist for traditional Mandingo music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he embarked on his current musical direction as a singer first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band.

 
His current band is the Mandingo Band. At present, he is a practitioner of the Afrobeat style, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Nigerian music. Fela Kuti/Africa 70 and King Sunny Adé are big influences, as is the legendary Malian growler Moussa Doumbia.