Bokanté - History [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: CDRW244
Barcode: 884108011249
Release Date: 30 Jun 2023
Genre: Jazz

On their third album, Bokanté have plugged into the blues, tracing the genre's roots in West Africa and the Arab world through the diaspora into the retro-modern present. These nine tracks tell — with lyrics sung mainly in Guadeloupean Creole — of outsiders and seers, memories and joy; of black history, global unity and the futility of war. Of taking time to rest, feel, love. Of the redemptive power of music — as a conduit, a change maker, a muse.

History finds Bokanté exploring further, dressing folkloric instruments including the Arabic oud, West African ngoni and North African guembri, the bass lute favoured by Morocco's Gnawa maalems, in western clothes.

Tracklisting
Bliss
Adjoni
Pa Domi
Illiminé
Flè a Mémwa
Ta Voix
Tandé
Mikrob
History

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