Xalam 2

Some boys who were impressed by Xalam 1 formed Xalam 2 The following information is taken from the book Mbalax Mi by Cornelia Panzacchi. The younger musicians helped their "stars" with small services and were thus allowed to play the instruments of Xalam 1 from time to time. That's the legend. In fact in the beginning they played the same variety of Latin-American, Afro-Cuban and North-American music. But they added rhythms and melodies taken from traditional West-African sources. This direction was not accepted by the audiences, but Xalam continied on this way to eventually invent Mbalax and to combine Mbalax with elements from jazz.
 
Their brake-through followed in 1975 when they toured Africa with Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela.
1979 they received a "Golden Palm" at Horizonte-Festival in Berlin. After their retour to Senegal they played the Jazz-Festival in Dakar and made a West-African tour playing in Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia and Nigeria.
In 1981 they visited the US and contributed to a Walt-Disney film production on African music. Since 1982 the were based in Paris and touring a lot, mainly around Europe ...
==Members==
===Founding members:===
*Cheikh Tidiane Tall (solo g)
*Idy Diop (perc)
*Abdoulaye Prosper Niang (dr, perc)
*Henri Guillabert (synth, keyb)
*Ibrahima Koundoul (voc)
*Baye Moussa Babou (b)
*Moussa Diongue
*Jean-Pierre Gandour
*Sanoussi Sidibé
*Daniel Gandour
*Xalifa Cissé (voc, perc)
===Additional members===
*Abdou MBoup (perc)
*Samba Yigo Dieng (solo g)
*Ansoumana Diatta (as)
*Yoro Dieng (tb)
*Moustapha Cissé (perc)
*Jean-Philippe Rykiel 
*Souleymane Faye (voc from 1985 to 1988)
==Discography==
1979
*Adé. Festival Horizonte de Berlin (LP: Xalam XPS 001)
*Marche à l'ombre (LP: RCA Milano A 258 RC 250 LC 8126)
1983
*Gorée (LP: Celluloid CEL 1925)
1985
*Apartheid (LP:, CD: Encore! ENC 134 C / Mélodie 9334 DK018) 
Encore ENC 134 C_AA_500.jpg
1986
*Ndiguel
year unknown
*African Roots (LP: Milkway Records FC 2428 883)
*Xarit (CD: Jet Set/BMG 259 009)
*Kanu 2 b/w Sidi Yella (7": Celluloid CEL 1925)
see also Xalam 1
==References==
==Bibliography/Sources==
*Mbalax Mi. Musikszene Senegal / Cornelia Panzacchi. - 2. Aufl. - Wuppertal: Hammer, 1997.