This month we rendez-vous with Souleymane`Mani' Sanou in Switzerland to speak about Burkina Faso's celebrated group Farafina and another chance to hear my short documentary "We must dare to invent in the future" made on location in Burkina Faso.
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Zimbabwe's rising stars
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Fanfare Farafina
From Benin to New Orleans, Chicago to Cameroon, this month Rendez vous à Bobo celebrates the brass band, looking at the musicians who have claimed the tradition as their own.
We hear from Steve Pretty of The Hackney Colliery Band, a nine piece band from London who bought their inventive mash ups of hip hop & pop to Cambridge on 22.3.14.
And we take a look at how colonial brass band music in Ghana, Benin and Nigeria gave birth to high life, juju and afrobeat.
And we take a look at how colonial brass band music in Ghana, Benin and Nigeria gave birth to high life, juju and afrobeat.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Synths south of the Sahara
Rendez-vous à Bobo is celebrating reinvention and musical magpies this month.
There is music from Afrikan Boy
And I'm telling the story of synths in Africa.
We also take a look at Afrofuturism, an artistic movement offering a reply to the third world stereotype often imposed on Africa.
Pumzi a science fiction film from Kenya screened at The Cambridge African Film Festival 2010
There is music from Afrikan Boy
And I'm telling the story of synths in Africa.
We also take a look at Afrofuturism, an artistic movement offering a reply to the third world stereotype often imposed on Africa.
Pumzi a science fiction film from Kenya screened at The Cambridge African Film Festival 2010
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Performing at The MAA
A few weeks back I was invited to provide music for an event at The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. Sing That Thing was the finale of a term of singing workshops exploring the objects in the museum and the stories behind them.
The museum had a wonderful acoustic and atmosphere
Thursday, 23 January 2014
The struggle through song
Opening with the formidable Thandiswa and her rallying "Lahlumlenze" (Shake your leg) This month Rendez-vous à Bobo is celebrating the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela through music and song.
From my own archive I have an interview with Hugh Masekela
There's music from Hot Water from Cape Town
And we remember Nelson Mandela's visit to Cambridge in 2001.
You can read my review of the new biopic Mandela:Long walk To Freedom here
From my own archive I have an interview with Hugh Masekela
There's music from Hot Water from Cape Town
And we remember Nelson Mandela's visit to Cambridge in 2001.
You can read my review of the new biopic Mandela:Long walk To Freedom here
Friday, 27 December 2013
At peace with Ballaké Sissoko
In the final Rendez-vous à Bobo podcast of the year I'm discussing peace with Malian Kora player Ballaké Sissoko in Cambridge earlier this month, and have Mandinka rap from Les Escrocs.
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