SOU KONO (vinyle)

Description

Midnight Ravers are back with their second album, which sets the tone and asserts a dual identity (Mali - France). A lived, necessary encounter that frees globalization from its economic constraints, grounding it in reality – that of humanity and exchange. The other necessity is artistic. To experience otherness in order to break free from self-containment, to escape one's social and cultural milieu, to create an instability conducive to research and creation. It is this sincere approach of openness to the other that has brought Midnight Ravers back to life as a new electro-mandingue combo, three Malians and three French artists involved in a complete and protean project: music, drawing, and video. A sensibility that permeates every pore of the music created, making it emotionally intense. Here, the soaring melodies of kora master Madou "Sidiki" Diabaté and the subtlety of the electronic atmospheres serve the beautiful and melancholic tunes of the incredible singer Fatim Kouyaté. There, MC Waraba and Méléké Tchatcho – Bamako's most prominent MCs – give Dom Peter's (High Tone) productions the feel of a festive trance, so far removed from the current canons of US rap and its endless trap variations. No "world coloration" or "ethnic samples" are simply overlaid here, but a true mixed-heritage group with music as its dialogue.