For their third album, Bokanté tuned into the blues, tracing the genre's roots from West Africa and the Arab world, through the diaspora, to today's retro-modern age. These nine tracks speak—with lyrics sung primarily in Guadeloupean Creole—of outsiders and seers, of memories and joy; of Black history, global unity, and the futility of war. Of taking time to rest, to feel, to love. Of music’s redemptive power—as a vehicle, a change-maker, a muse.
In history, Bokanté explores other avenues, dressing folk instruments such as the Arabic oud, the West African ngoni, and the North African guembri, the bass lute prized by Morocco's Gnawa maalems, in Western clothes.
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