Madiba

Description

Blick Bassy will release a new album, 'Madiba' on May 26, 2023 via InFiné. The fourth studio album by Bassy, 'Madiba', is sung in the Baasa language of Blick Bassy's native Cameroon, based in France. It follows the acclaimed 2019 album "1958" released on No Format (winner of the Sacem Grand Prix for world music and Songlines' best African album, which honored Cameroon's efforts to overthrow French colonial rule), a collaboration with Disclosure and the publication of Blick's award-winning first novel. 'Madiba' brings together twelve songs in the form of fables, dedicated to the theme of water, in which Blick Bassy's high-pitched voice dominates, carried by a delicate guitar, a synthesizer and sober brass arrangements. The tracks are diaphanous yet modernist songs, bearing witness to a contemporary and poetic Africanity at the crossroads of soul, folk and electro.