The song is titled “N’yanyan,” based on an old song passed down over time. Rokia Koné recorded it in one take on a night when the world around her was in upheaval — August 2020, when there was a coup d'etat in Mali. You can hear how she found solace in the words: “Things may be bad now, but it's only a moment in time.”

A musical message of hope in a new single from Mali’s Rokia Koné

09.The Vapourer

Loney dear - Lilies

Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen makes records and plays shows under the enigmatic name of Loney Dear. In the early 2000s, in his Stockholm apartment studio, Svanängen made a name for himself by creating homemade CDrs with a minidisk microphone and a home computer, self-releasing albums. By 2007 his music was embraced by US label Sub Pop, who released three albums: Loney Noir, Dear John and Hall Music.

Loney Dear has built a significant reputation over the years, with some glowing reviews in The Guardian, BBC, Drowned in Sound, Pitchfork and earlier this year the Line of Best Fit went as far as calling him a “brilliant genius”.

Consistently creating elegant, deeply stirring music, Loney Dear has been described by The Quietus as ”…the obsessive work of one man, albeit one that can sing with the vulnerable delicacy of an angel and makes bedroom recordings that sound like God's own orchestra”. Multi-layered with instrumentation and Svanängen’s fragile yet irrepressible vocals, Loney Dear’s songs bloom with a sense of both intimacy and openness, at once uplifting and heartbreaking, tenacious yet tender.

Loney Dear signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records in June 2017. The eponymous album will be released on September 29th to tie in with a European Tour and a preview at WOMAD Charlton Park in July.

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BRAND NEW WHIP

On the opening night of Le Guess Who? 2018, and on the eve of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s 50th Anniversary, we celebrated their legacy and welcomed the collective back in style, after a 25-year absence in The Netherlands. 

You can now relive their glorious performance (curated by Moor Mother) and experience why the group have been celebrated as one of the most remarkable free jazz movements to arise from Chicago’s already rich jazz heritage. 

Line-up:
Roscoe Mitchell - alto sax, soprano sax, sopranino sax, flute and percussion
Famoudou Don Moye - drums, congas, bongos and percussion
Hugh Ragin - trumpet, flugelhorn and piccolo trumpet
Jaribu Shahid - double bass
Silvia Bolognesi - bass
Tomeka Reid - cello
Dudu Kouate – african percussion

While listening, read our in-depth feature ‘Tracing the Roots: Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Great Black Music, Ancient To The Future’, where we trace the roots of the group and its individual performers, their voyages across the world, and their establishment of some truly inspiring cooperative ethics: https://www.leguesswho.nl/news/tracing-the-roots-art-ensemble-of-chicagos-great-black-music-ancient-to-the-future

Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer on Thursday, 8 November, at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal. 
Photography by Jelmer de Haas.

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Art Ensemble of Chicago - Live at Le Guess Who? 2018

Les Amazones d’Afrique announce new single “Amazones Power” – 3rd May 2019
New Album Autumn 2019

The all-female collective of West African musicians made a huge impact with their 2017 debut album, “République Amazone”. Singing out against gender inequality, Les Amazones d’Afrique believe that music has the potential to be a weapon against the systematic disempowerment of women across Africa and beyond.

“Amazones Power” tackles these issues head on. “Never again, silence, violence. I want to live and to be free.” 

Featuring female musicians from West Africa, joined by those from Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Guyana, Spain and Algeria. Also featured are the male voices of Douranne and Magué from the Parisian band Nyoko Bokbae, urging: “Mama, marry the one you like. And finally, be happy”.

Les Amazones d'Afrique - Amazones Power

Real World Records was founded by WOMAD and Peter Gabriel to provide talented artists from around the world with access to state-of-the-art recording facilities and audiences beyond their geographic region.

Launched in 1989, Real World Records has grown into a label of wide-ranging, world-class music from all corners of the globe.

Les Amazones d'Afrique - Amazones Power

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