Etoile 2000

Sounding as though these were the Yardbirds place straight down in Senegal and made by Lee Perry, Etoile 2000 appreciated a brief life time in the Senegalese music picture — however the impact lingers on. The instant roots from the music group are in Étoile de Dakar; the group produced in 1977 after several musicians split in the venerable Superstar Band, which have been around since 1960 and that was the main of contemporary Senegalese music. Étoile de Dakar appreciated the abilities of two exceptional vocalists, a Youssou N’Dour and Un Hadji Faye, furthermore to guitarist Badou N’Daye, whose Hendrix impact demonstrated in his extremely electric stylings. For just two years the music group was the toast of Dakar and Senegal’s most well-known music group, playing from coast to coast. But undoubtedly rivalries happened and in 1979, Faye and N’Daye divided to create their own music group, with the support of businessman Mass Diokhane, who went the Jandeer Membership where Étoile de Dakar acquired generally performed. The music group rehearsed in Diokhane’s garage area, and one evening he taped the melody “Boubou N’Gary.” After playing forever, the musicians had taken a breakfast time break and Diokhane delivered an helper to radio place ORTS using the tape from the melody. Once performed, it demonstrated so well-known that it had been replayed the whole day as well as the DJ, Golo Gaye, christened the music group Etoile 2000. More than another two times the music group recorded three even more songs for his or her initial launch, still on Diokhane’s primitive products, which offered a respected 5,000 copies on your day it made an appearance in Dakar shops. Having a screaming fuzz pedal, Faye’s high griot tone of voice, and liberal usage of an echo chamber as their stock-in-trade, the music group played regularly around Dakar and documented two even more cassettes, some songs of which known back again to the Cuban audio which had always been well-known in Senegal, others seeking to the youthful, well-known m’balax tempo, filtered through their own private lens. After simply 3 years, the music group folded, but their memory space continues to be alive in the Compact disc Dakar Sound, released in 1996 within the Dutch CNR label, which compiles songs from all three of their produces, the crazy “Boubou N’Gary” also showing up within the Music in my own Head sampler.