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- Summary: The latest album for the Senegalese musician was produced with Barry Reynolds.
- Record Label: Palm
- Genre(s): World
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Positive: 5 out of 9
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Mixed: 4 out of 9
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Television embodies the sound of the African future while simultaneously nodding over its shoulder at the pain, joy, suffering and beauty of the continent’s past.
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Television is an essential purchase for fans of West African artists, but should also be investigated by anyone who loves heartfelt, impeccably performed music.
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UncutIf the initial effect is underwhelming, after several plays you find the tunes have buried themselves in your head and layers of intriguing subtlety are revealed. [Aug 2009, p.98]
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MojoIt's clear Maal is still boxing clever. [Jul 2009]
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The technology on Television sometimes threatens to swamp Maal’s voice, and that’s true too--the first time I heard the album I came away thinking that he’d barely opened his mouth at all, and it wasn’t until I’d listened to it again that I changed my mind.
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The Senegalese seer is joined by a polyglot cast: the future's calling.
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The results are perfectly pleasant but rarely inspiring, hardly sterile but at the same time too smooth.