- The documentary is very well done. There is a sure editing and directing hand guiding the process - it is not explicitly visible, but it can be felt behind the scenes, its deft touches shaping the narrative, and carrying our attention. At times it approaches poeticness, at other times poignancy as the narrator links the segments, his voice just the right laidbackness, invoking a sitting around tassey attaya sharing the story of Gambian music.
- There are interesting juxtapositions, throughout. Why did the Gambian music industry, by all accounts a raging success in the 60s and 70s, die out so suddenly? Because all the artitsts left for greener pastures, the yoot man says. Because the artists went into "strategic retreat", the old timer says, the main factor behind the retreat being the increase in the the size of the country's population, spread out across wider areas of land.
