Bleep

Hailing from Fouta Toro in Northern Senegal, virtuosic finger-picker Tidiane Thiam captures a warming kind of learned innocence across the acoustic guitar instrumentals of Siftorde. The likes of ‘Djatasoun’ and ‘Nenamev’ expound a chipper pastoralism, situating itself in time and space by a crepuscular, cricket chirp-laden atmosphere and carried by Thiam’s worldly sense for an off-kilter rhythm, flitting across a playful yet affecting high end on tunes like ‘Dannibe’ and ‘Hommage a Toumany Diabate’.