{"id":42233,"date":"2018-10-03T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/london-based-afro-dub-ensemble-fofoulah-announce-new-album-and-share-seye\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:09","slug":"afro-dub-ensemble-fofoulah-seye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/afro-dub-ensemble-fofoulah-seye\/","title":{"rendered":"London-based Afro-dub ensemble Fofoulah announce new album and share “Seye”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The afro-dub ensemble Fofoulah, have followed-up their trailblazing debut album with an even more shapeshifting and adventurous recordings. The new album \u201cDaega Rek\u201d (The Truth) is now scheduled to drop on November 9.<\/h4>\n

Fofoulah is a London-based group mixing Senegalese voice and West African rhythms with dub basslines, sci-fi synths, raw\u00a0guitars and intense grooves.\u00a0\u00a0After the release of their self-titled first album, the band played extensively in the U.K. and Europe where \u2013 spontaneously \u2013 every concert would see Kaw Secka rise to the microphone (with his tama \u2013 a talking drum) and rap over the last song, cuing rhythmic patterns for the group to play in unison (called Bakas). It was decided to take this exploratory part of the shows forward into the next realm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The band is now sharing ‘Seye’ (Marriage), the first extract of the new album \u201cDaega Rek.\u00a0The song showcases perfectly the concept that emerged for the new album. A combining recordings of drums and percussion (laid down at Real World Studios) with improvisatory vocalizations and a production aesthetic that pushed the band\u2019s collective sound in a much more electronic and dub-based direction.<\/p>\n