{"id":41840,"date":"2019-04-09T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T10:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/art-melody-is-back-with-afrofuturistic-tok-toko\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T22:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T21:05:20","slug":"art-melody-is-back-with-afrofuturistic-tok-toko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/art-melody-is-back-with-afrofuturistic-tok-toko\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Melody is back with afrofuturistic &#8216;T\u00f4k T\u00f4ko&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23580 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Art-Melody-T%C3%B4k-T%C3%B4ko-ZOODO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Art-Melody-T%C3%B4k-T%C3%B4ko-ZOODO.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Art-Melody-T%C3%B4k-T%C3%B4ko-ZOODO-759x541.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Art-Melody-T%C3%B4k-T%C3%B4ko-ZOODO-661x471.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Art-Melody-T%C3%B4k-T%C3%B4ko-ZOODO-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Art-Melody-T%C3%B4k-T%C3%B4ko-ZOODO-375x267.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Burkinab\u00e9 rapper announces new album <em>ZOODO<\/em> produced by French beatmarker\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/tag\/redrum\/\">Redrum<\/a><\/span>.<\/h4>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from his mother&#8217;s griotic incantations, as well as from the 70&#8217;s Afro Soul and the New York Rap scene, Art Melody has been delivering his unique flow for a while. He also was part of Electro-Rap project Waga 3000 with another musician he helped to surface : Joey Le Soldat.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by his own life experiences, he writes raw and uncompromising lyrics. He, who went on a tough journey to Europe in the early 2000&#8217;s, dreaming of a better life for his family, and ended up getting incarcerated in Algeria before being taken back to Burkina.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-78WUlJiHs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; as felt in his music &#8211; light can be found in every darkness. He then travelled through Ivory Coast, Mali and Mauritania where he met several inspiring artists, some of whom he collaborated or shared the stage with :\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Ga\u00ebl Faye<\/span>, La Rumeur,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/angelique-kidjo\/\">Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/seun-kuti\/\">Seun Kuti<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or Quantic Soul Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>After five releases on Tentacule Records, Art Melody is back with\u00a0<em>ZOODOO<\/em>\u00a0(&#8220;friendship&#8221;). Produced by Redrum, with whom he had already worked on two albums, among which the now classic <em>Wogdog Blues<\/em>\u00a0released 2013.<\/p>\n<p>First track taken from the album,\u00a0&#8220;T\u00f4k T\u00f4ko&#8221; shows the raw energy of the two artists when working together.<\/p>\n<p><em>ZOODOO\u00a0<\/em>will be released in November on\u00a0Tentacule Records.<\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/1958-blick-bassy-um-nyobe-la-memoire-dans-la-peau\/\">1958 : Blick Bassy &amp; Um Nyob\u00e8, la m\u00e9moire dans la peau<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burkinab\u00e9 rapper announces new album ZOODO produced by French beatmarker\u00a0Redrum. 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