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Afro Celt Sound System

World music
World music

Afro Celt Sound System is a World music act. Their sound grew out of N'Faly Kouyate, Jesse Cook, Baaba Maal and Manu Katché. Those roots explain a lot about how Afro Celt Sound System arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Altan, Baka Beyond, Clannad, Geoffrey Oryema and Amadou & Mariam, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jesse Cook, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Sevara Nazarkhan and Altan, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Afro Celt Sound System, reaching back through N'Faly Kouyate and forward to Jesse Cook. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Afro Celt Sound SystemN'Faly KouyateJesse CookBaaba MaalManu KatchéJesse CookPeter GabrielRobert PlantSevara NazarkhanAltanSinéad O'ConnorAltanBaka BeyondClannadGeoffrey OryemaAmadou & MariamBeats AntiqueOi Va VoiOrchestra Baobab

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Afro Celt Sound System connections

Afro Celt Sound System grew out of N'Faly Kouyate, Jesse Cook, Baaba Maal and Manu Katché, shares an orbit with Altan, Baka Beyond, Clannad and Geoffrey Oryema, went on to shape Jesse Cook, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant and Sevara Nazarkhan. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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