Released 24 November 2004
Label UMe Digital
Recorded Senegal
Digital-only download; released in Senegal on cassette in June 2003.
Ken Stringfellow & WaFlash (MaSane, Do Sagna, Yade Toto, Koolu, Race, Magx Thiam, Galass, Mbaye Joola, Beuz)
On a trip through West Africa in late 2001, Ken Stringfellow met a group of musicians whose work he had admired: WaFlash, from Thies, Senegal, who have been playing together for about a decade. Immensely popular in Senegal and neighboring countries, they have yet to have a release in N. America or Europe. They boast three incredible vocalists, including female singer Ma Sane, who takes the lead on most of the tracks on the album. They spent a week in early 2003 in a studio in Dakar, with compositions that they had forged the previous week in their rehearsal studio (a spare room in Ms. Sane’s family compound in Thies).
01. Mappando
02. Yow Nit
03. What Is Strong
04. Daw
05. Sambale
Lyrics
Mappando
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Yow Nit
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What Is Strong
What is strong?
What is strong?
Now time, baby
Hasn’t been good to me
I don’t wait every week for your weekend sympathies
The weakest strain of you
Is tapped into my vein
Seems to keep me together
Til I feel sick again
I’ve got freedom to exit this ?
I can’t seem to join ’em
Sure can’t beat ’em
Come to me
Cry to me
I’ll speak right to your heart
Fluently
If I’m weak for wanting you
Then tell me baby
What is strong?
If I’m weak for wishing you closer
Tell me baby
What is strong?
Stage fright got you in its grips again
You’ve been treading the boys like a regular thespian
Acting out
Outside come dip into my pride
Nobody stands by me while I stand on the side
I could give up
So baby don’t tell me
Somehow our heart’s more heavy
The more it’s empty
Mails don’t come
Phones don’t ring
Hate to see just what tomorrow doesn’t bring
If I’m weak for wanting you
Then tell me baby
What is strong?
If I’m weak for waiting and waiting
Tell me baby
What is strong?
Don’t say when
Don’t say how
Don’t give me what you can’t promise
More than now
What is strong?
What is strong?
Come to me
Cry to me
Tell me all the things you know
You’ll know never be
You’ll never be
If I’m weak for wanting you
Then tell me baby
What is strong?
If I’m weak for wishing you closer
Tell me baby
What is strong?
If I’m weak for waiting and waiting
Tell me baby
What is strong?
If I’m weak for wanting you
Tell me baby
What is strong?
What is strong?
Daw
(no lyrics found)
Sambale
(no lyrics found)