Between his first album Lake Geneva (2009) and this Madiba, the Cameroonian singer-songwriter Blick Bassy gradually got rid of the acoustic instrumentation referring to African popular music to consider an Afrofuturist pop song influenced by both Western and African currents. With the help of co-producer and arranger Romain Jovion and pop composer Malik Djoudi, Bassy lays his soft voice on sheets of synthesizers barely crumpled by the impulses of electronic percussion, all accompanied by a few phrases of trumpet, electric guitars, furtive violins. An ultra-slick disc that is easy to listen to, Bassy proving to be a fine melodist, brilliant in the calmer passages of the album such as the meditative Hola Me or the eloquent Touye. Through his texts written in the Bassa language, the musician writes a tribute to water in twelve beautiful songs. In concert at the Fairmount Theater on July 13, on the bill for the Festival international Nuits d’Afrique.
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