Thione Seck brings Carnatic vocalist Bombay Jayashri and singer Rehab into a set of mbalax tracks that trade sabar-driven polyrhythms for threaded Indian vocal ornamentation — a rare confluence of Senegalese groove and South Indian phrasing. On Stern’s Africa, Orientissime sits in mid-tempo territory, foregrounding elastic guitar and percussion patterns that let both mbalax swing and Carnatic lines unfold.