Baaba Seth

I’d like to talk about a band that I don’t think exists anymore and whose albums are not even available to buy. Still, I feel like saying some kind words for this band that made some great music. Baaba Seth was a band from Charlottesville, Virginia during the mid to late 90’s. I don’t know much about them except that they had several line-up changes, and they were heavily influenced by world music, specifically African music. To my knowledge they released only two albums on the label Butros Butros Groove. Crazy Wheel was a studio album that was released in 1997. Live…At The End Of The World followed it in 1999. I missed many opportunities to see this band but I did see them once. They had incredible stage energy. They had about 6 musicians onstage, a great electric guitarist (Mike Chang); the lead singer (Dirk Lind), who also played acoustic guitar; a flautist who played an incredible flute, sax, percussion and sang and danced (Hope Clayburn); a horn player (Tim Lett); a great drummer (Jim Ralston); and a bassist (Derek Bond). I’ve often wondered what happened to the band but not a lot can be found about them on the Internet, except that they did exist. If anyone out there happens to know anything about the band, let me know. I’d love to know if some form of the band still exists or if members of Baaba Seth went on to other projects.