the musical selection of “World Africa” #152

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2023-05-25 19:00:05

Every week, The World Africa presents three new musical releases from or inspired by the continent. This Thursday, place at La Caravane passes with the late Rachid Taha, the group Mazalda without Sofiane Saïdi, and the big band Bigre! in afrobeat mode.

“Baba”, by La Caravane passe (feat. Rachid Taha, Kenzi Bourras & Hakim Hamadouche)

Travel is conducive to encounters. It is not Toma Feterman who will say the opposite, he whose group has made nomadism its credo, from the Balkans to Africa, multiplying collaborations with artists who draw the musical geography of La Caravane passe. So to celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Parisian formation publishes Friday, May 26 Hotel Caravan, an album where 20 guests revisit 20 titles from his repertoire. Among them, the Algerians Kenzi Bourras (keyboards) and Hakim Hamadouche (mandoluth), who give new life to the piece Baba recorded with their late accomplice Rachid Taha – a version unveiled exclusively for The World Africa.

Choubi, from Mazalda

It was alongside another Algerian singer, Sofiane Saïdi, that the Lyonnais group Mazalda made itself known to the general public, in 2018, with the album The Ndjoum. Friday, the quartet formed by Stéphane Cézard (saz), Yann Lemeunier (drums), Lucas Spirli (keyboards) and Adrien Spirli (synth bass) will release a new opus, baptized Special Key, in which his « funk prog tropical » is clearly eyeing North Africa and the Middle East, the legacy of a tour from Oran to Constantine with the prince of “raï 2.0”. The first excerpt, choubi, offers an abundant glimpse of the mad energy that emanates from their compositions.

“Urban madness”, de Bigre!

Equally frantic is the pace of urban madness, a short piece of afrobeat taken from the eighth album of Bigre!, a big band of around twenty musicians formed in 2007 by the French composer Félicien Bouchot. Released at the end of April, Tchourou Mix Tape hears “evoking the African roots of jazz, funk and Afro-Caribbean music”, a challenge met with flying colors partly thanks to the arrival in the orchestra of Burkinabe drummer Wendlavim Zabsonré and singer Cynthia Abraham. Follower of fruitful meetings, Bigre! was associated in his previous opus, Uproar, to the Frenchwoman of Cameroonian origin Célia Kameni.

Read also: Bikutsi, jazz and highlife burger: the musical selection of “Monde Afrique” #151

Find all the musical favorites of the editorial staff in the playlist YouTube of World Africa.

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