it takes place in podor, your home town in northern senegal, which is quite remote but... people want to be there every year. now, in your latest album being, you have a track freak out which actually includes some wonderful images of you being at the blues of the river festival in podor — i believe it is from a couple of years ago. what we'd like to do is have everybody, have a listen, have a look at what it means for baaba maal to return to his own community. okay. let's have a look at this. freak out by baaba maal plays. wonderful images there, baaba, which i think get to the heart of what we're talking about — that marriage of tradition and modernity and the musicalfusions as well. what really strikes me is the excitement of young people. does your music today still excite the young people of your home? it does, and i'm very surprised. but at the same time, i think these people, the young ones, are really, really interested about the journey that i have been taking since a long time, trying to represent them in the rest of the world and bringing back something that can

your music but would you say your music but would you say your music is still very much rooted in podorhern senegal and the fishing community that you came from and the very sort of local place that your music was founded in?— place that your music was founded in? yeah, it has its own place. _ founded in? yeah, it has its own place. my _ founded in? yeah, it has its own place, my region, - founded in? yeah, it has its own place, my region, into| founded in? yeah, it has its i own place, my region, into my music but notjust senegal where i come from, i think i can say from west africa first and then, open to the world because i think i am global citizen of the world and i do take a lot of influences by travelling, listening to all these kinds of music and meeting some other musicians, trying to understand where is this meeting point between what i have from my african cultural background and what they are giving to me. background and what they are giving to me-_ giving to me. how difficult is it to do the _ giving to me. how difficult is it to do the two _ giving to me. how difficult is