{"id":41806,"date":"2019-04-24T13:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/sahel-sounds-is-back-with-luka-productions-electro-organic-manding-album\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:27:11","slug":"sahel-sounds-is-back-with-luka-productions-electro-organic-manding-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sahel-sounds-is-back-with-luka-productions-electro-organic-manding-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel Sounds is back with Luka Productions&#8217; electro-organic Manding album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24268 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luka-Productions-Falaw-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luka-Productions-Falaw-2.jpg 633w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luka-Productions-Falaw-2-465x333.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Luka-Productions-Falaw-2-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Bamako-based producer Luka is one of the most innovative and prolific producers of the country, with his unique blend of traditional West African music and electronic sounds.<\/h4>\n<p>Following\u00a0<em>Fasokan<\/em>,\u00a0released in 2017 on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sahel-sounds\/\">Sahel Sounds<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<em>Falaw\u00a0<\/em>is a shift in\u00a0Luka Productions&#8217; focus. After the Malian &#8220;new age&#8221; inspirations, he decided to revisit Manding traditional music.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, he invited\u00a0several\u00a0traditional performers to join him in the studio. Voices and stories of Griots fly over Luka\u2019s sequenced organic drum samples, while ngoni loops call and answer each other in a playful leitmotiv.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=701539529\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lukaproductions.bandcamp.com\/album\/falaw\">Falaw by Luka Productions<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For\u00eat&#8221;, first single taken from the album, blends tradition and avant-garde, in an ethereal electro-hip hop track punctuated by layers of vocal samples.<\/p>\n<p>Through the voices of Griots and\u00a0regional styles of lyrical Hip-Hop,\u00a0Luka tackles the issues of modern living.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0Luka Productions in our Sahel Sounds playlist on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/78LNLrkSNT9bfU4BsFEBy3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/3874504926?app_id=105611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Falaw\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Luka Productions,\u00a0out on May 24, 2019. Preorder it\u00a0on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/lukaproductions.bandcamp.com\/album\/falaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sahel-sounds-chris-kirkley\/\">Sahel Sounds: adventures in the desert, beyond the exotic mirages<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bamako-based producer Luka is one of the most innovative and prolific producers of the country, with his unique blend of traditional West African music and electronic sounds. Following\u00a0Fasokan,\u00a0released in 2017 on\u00a0Sahel Sounds,\u00a0Falaw\u00a0is a shift in\u00a0Luka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4096,10635,3967],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41806"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41806"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}