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Our friends at Nomadic Wax are in Senegal this month producing a unique documentary film, called 'African Underground: Democracy in Dakar', showing how local hip-hop is shaping the current Presidential Election. Each week they are sending back 5-10 minute video segments. This "real-time" documentary style allows for immediate discussion of music and politics in Senegal. Upon their return, these segments will be made into a full length documentary.
Episode 4, "Wade Wins." This episode shows the calm after the storm. A very eerie calm indeed as all of Dakar seems stunned by the election results, where Wade has seemed to have won 56% of the vote. This episode shows the calm on the streets and some incisive interviews with journalists and artists.
The group Gaston bring their appropriate and haunting track "Wallo" to this episode, as well as participate in a deep interview. Also featured are interviews with Keyti, Rose Skelton, Serigne Ndiaye, Pape Guey and Matador.
To read more about this project, check out our posts on Episode 1, Episode 2, or Episode 3. Each week we'll continue to feature a new segment from the documentary, so stay tuned.
Exclusive Release: The soundtrack to this documentary is drawn from the new album African Underground: Depths of Dakar, and is available exclusively on Calabash.
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