Afrobeats mixed with Afropop that blends street loyalty with motivational energy. With a catchy hook and hard-hitting verses, the song reflects resilience, pride, and the unbreakable bond of a strong team. Inspired by the Yakuza's code of honor, it speaks to overcoming challenges, staying true to oneself, and rising above the envy of others.

Yakuza

"Quand le parler fait langue, et comment le traduire ?"
avec Christiane Fioupou et Mona de Pracontal • modération : Salomé Kiner

À la Chapelle du Méjan, Arles, le samedi 2 novembre 2024
Plus d'infos : www.atlas-citl.org/assises-2024/

Captation et mixage : Guillaume Dubois
Photo : Romain Boutillier

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L'association ATLAS (atlas-citl.org) organise à Arles, depuis plus de quarante ans, les Assises de la traduction littéraire, qui réunissent des passionnés de littératures étrangères – traducteurs, auteurs et lecteurs – pour trois jours de festivités et de débats autour d’un thème.

Les 41es Assises de la traduction littéraire : "Dialogues" se sont tenues du 1er au 3 novembre 2024 et étaient soutenues par : le programme Europe Créative de l'Union européenne, la Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France (DGLFLF) du ministère de la Culture, le Centre National du Livre, la Sofia, la Région Sud, le Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, la Ville d'Arles, et la Fondation Pro Helvetia.

"Quand le parler fait langue, et comment le traduire ?"

I Need Your Love doesn’t shout - it sways.
Blending elements of Afro-Pop, mellow dancehall, urban chillwave and electronic Afrobeats, the track unfolds like a humid night breeze, carrying both sensual warmth and emotional weight. Sung in West African Pidgin English, the dual vocals mirror the push-and-pull of desire and doubt, longing and distance.

The production is stripped yet precise: bouncing percussions, soft pads, and a hypnotic groove create a lush space where vulnerability can dance. The contrast between the laidback beat and the bittersweet vocal tone creates a compelling tension - a love story that lives in the unresolved.

More than just a love song, I Need Your Love captures the emotional texture of modern relationships - part ritual, part release. A mood piece for late-night city drives, quiet thoughts, or playlists that speak with rhythm instead of volume.

Genre:  Electronic Afrobeat / Afro-Pop / Mellow Dancehall / Urban Chillwave

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Some say that pop is a minor art form. So it's best not to take
itself too seriously. Nevertheless. When the world loses its compass, when intolerance and hatred of difference resurface, how can we not echo the dread that engulfs us?
After The Rainbow recounts a dream, an intimate chaos, a wandering between nightmare and hope, elegy and jubilation, punk darkness and electro-pop bursts. It says, modestly
, that we refuse to let ourselves be reduced, confined or assigned.
Unless it's just music, a pretext for making music, by listening, singing, dancing and vibrating in unison. Which wouldn't be bad, would it?
You might say.
JrM and friends

After The Rainbow

minimalistic afro-rave song features beautiful, dreamy vocals with a unique raspy breathy timbre, crisp percussion, soft log drums, and playful handpan melodies over a gentle bass groove, Verses are spacious, letting muted piano and marimbas intertwine, while the vibrant, catchy chorus lifts with bright synths and airy backing vocals, Each section flows with a breezy, sunlit charm

Pure Love

This track "F-Sharp" from the Album "For The Record" by Nnanna Egwu, The Grandfather is a spoken word poetry about the irony of Failure and how to navigate it. Written and performed by Nnanna Egwu Echem Featuring The Grandfather, and produced by Kemena.

F-Sharp

This minimalistic afro-rave song features beautiful, dreamy vocals with a unique raspy breathy timbre, crisp percussion, soft log drums, and playful handpan melodies over a gentle bass groove, Verses are spacious, letting muted piano and marimbas intertwine, while the vibrant, catchy chorus lifts with bright synths and airy backing vocals, Each section flows with a breezy, sunlit charm.

Take It Easy

Abeg, Shift Small (Afrobeats Instrumental)

instrumental (afrobeats)

'Purple Sky' is more than a love song; it is a meditation on the sublime nature of infatuation—that moment when personal reality shifts entirely.

Seku Ndo, through the visceral Pidgin lyrics originally inspired by the poetry of Aime Bapaga, explores the concept of total loss of self-control ("I dey lose control of myself") when confronted with profound connection.

The "Purple Sky" acts as a symbolic threshold: a rare, surreal, and beautiful moment that plunges the singer into a world where reality bends ("Walking through the sandstorms under the deep seas"). It's a journey into the fantastic, where the love object becomes the very thing that gives form to the internal chaos ("You enter my fantasy / Like cinema wey person draw").

Masterfully produced by Coco Spherg, the soundscape mirrors this descent into the fantastic, offering a rhythmic journey that is as intoxicating as the emotion itself.

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Written by Aime Bapaga, 2025
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Title: Purple Sky

When sky turn purple, na den I close my eye
Go sleep, make I ginger (entice) to love you
When sky turn purple, I wan hold you well-well
For my hand (in my arms), carry our feeling reach infinity

Babe, I dey crazy for your matter
I dey lose control of myself
I no know wetin I go do
When sky turn purple, purple...

This feeling don dey run tey-tey (for a long time), e dey run steady
E dey hang (hovering) like plenty small bird dey play
Inside and outside the cloud
You enter my fantasy (fantasy-fantasy ooh yeah)
Like cinema wey person draw (surreal storyboard)

I dey waka (walking) inside sandstorm under deep sea
One sculpture dey burst like the big Pyramid
I pull the moon one inch closer to Human being (Mankind)
I fit explain the way I dey feel about you
From the emotion wey dey roar (howl) inside my body
Abeg (please) make somebody tell me wetin I go do

I just want to feel your breath near me
I just want to touch you and smell your hair
Make I hold you for my hand dis special time

This feeling don dey run tey-tey, e dey run steady
E dey hang like plenty small bird dey play
Inside and outside the cloud
You enter my fantasy (fantasy-fantasy ooh yeah)
Like cinema wey person draw

When sky turn purple
I wan hold you
For my hand
Carry our feeling reach infinity
When sky turn purple...
Purple...

I dey waka inside sandstorm under deep sea
One sculpture dey burst like the big Pyramid
I pull the moon one inch closer to Human being
I fit explain the way I dey feel about you
From the emotion wey dey roar inside my body
Abeg make somebody tell me wetin I go do


OUT SOON 

Purple Sky

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Recording afrosounds daily till I accidentally go mainstream as a artist...

Producer | Composer | Lyricist

DEEP / MELODIC / FUSION / EXPERIMENTAL 
No fix genres – creativity has no boundaries!

Music has been a part of me since my early years – shaped by diverse influences and a deep love for sound. I attended a music-focused high school and played piano as a child – but it wasn’t until years later that I truly began creating music myself. 

My musical journey started over 15 years ago with mixes and mashups. Later, I began with non-commercial compositions – before taking a long break due to personal and health-related reasons. After that time of silence and reflection, I’m now back – still creating and transforming experience into sound. 

I work across genres and approaches: from fully self-composed tracks to productions using samples and even songs generated with contemporary tools combined with the others – typically with own lyrics to tell personal or meaningful stories, influenced by years of illness and a deep longing for genuine justice.

ATLAS soutient, transmet et fait connaître la traduction littéraire par l'organisation d'événements (Assises de la traduction littéraire à Arles, Printemps de la Traduction à Paris), la mise en œuvre de programmes de formation et en gérant le Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires, lieu unique de résidence situé à Arles depuis 1987.

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