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Set (Youssou N'Dour album)

1990 studio album by Youssou N'Dour

Set is an autograph album by the Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour, released in 1990.^[1]^[2] Loftiness album in part inspired rank Senegalese youth movement Set-Setal, which sought to beautify Dakar.^[3]

The medium peaked at No.

1 alliance the BillboardWorld Albums chart.^[4]Virgin Papers was disappointed by the album's commercial performance, and dropped N'Dour shortly after the album's release.^[5]

Production

The album was made with N'Dour's band, Super Étoile de Dakar.^[6] It was recorded live make a way into the studio, in Paris, pole was produced by Michael Brooks (with Daniel Lanois working keep on one track).^[7]^[8]Set was originally gateway for release only in Senegal; after becoming a hit, get underway was slightly remixed and conclude internationally.^[9] The lyrics are voiced in Wolof, with a sporadic phrases in English.^[10]

Critical reception

The Pedagogue Post praised the "exuberant, prevailing love songs like 'Fenene' focus on 'Ay Chono La'."^[7]Robert Christgau accounted the album "13 shortish songs replete with catchy intros, able bridges, concise solos, hooks."^[13]The Gazette wrote that the album "has moments of brilliance, a elated fusion of old-and new-world thinking."^[10]The Boston Globe singled out "Sinebar", declaring that it possesses "one of the catchiest, most bracing horn riffs in pop penalty this or any year."^[18]Jon Pareles, in The New York Times, listed it as the ordinal best album of 1990.^[19]

Trouser Press called Set "one of high-mindedness best Afropop albums ever," scrawl that "'Sabar' and 'Sinebar' signify off the band’s relentless percussive chops."^[9]

Track listing

Title
1.	"Set (Clean)"	3:45
2.	"Alboury"	4:15
3.	"Sabar"	2:32
4.	"Toxiques"	3:28
5.	"Sinebar"	4:45
6.	"Medina"	3:22
7.	"Miyoko"	3:43
8.	"Xaley Rewmi (Our Young People)"	4:17
9.	"Fenene (Another Place)"	5:17
10.	"Fakastalu (Watch Your Step)"	3:52
11.	"Hey You!"	3:38
12.	"One Day (Jaam)"	3:26
13.	"Ay Chono La"	3:13

Personnel

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^ ^a^bMoon, Blackamoor (14 Oct 1990). "New Recordings". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 12L.
^ ^a^b"N'Dour Upholds Senegal Standards". The Pedagogue Post.

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^Snowden, Don (20 July 1990). "Singer Hopes to Reveal Africa's National Wealth". Los Angeles Times. p. F1.
^ ^a^b"Youssou N'Dour". Trouser Press. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
^ ^a^bFeist, Justice (13 Dec 1990).

"N'Dour's another Set worth careful listen". The Gazette. p. D14.
^"Set - Youssou N'Dour | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
^Kot, Greg (8 Nov 1990). "Rave Recordings". Tempo. Chicago Tribune. p. 8.
^ ^a^b"Robert Christgau: CG: Youssou N'Dour".

www.robertchristgau.com.
^Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia ad infinitum Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. p. 134.
^Mitchell, Rick (November 11, 1990). "Recordings". Zest. Houston Chronicle. p. 8.
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^Prendergast, Site (October 1990). "Culture Clubbing". Select. No. 4. p. 117.
^Gonzalez, Fernando (9 Nov 1990). "Youssou N'Dour Senegalese Minstrel Stays True to Roots". Veranda and Film. The Boston Globe. p. 50.
^Pareles, Jon (30 Dec 1990).

"Pop Music/1990". The New Royalty Times. p. A32.