"Live transmission" – it’s at the heart of West African culture, its oral, and aural, tradition.

Musically, it’s in the passing on of expertise from teacher to pupil, who in turn becomes a teacher; and it’s in the fluid improvisational ability of the finest musicians there, like those that Yann Tambour aka Stranded Horse, worked with over two weeks in Dakar, Senegal in June 2012. In this context, Joy Division’s epochal hymn to alienation takes on a completely different meaning.