{"id":42511,"date":"2017-12-19T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/toto-bona-lokua-unveils-a-beautiful-animated-music-video\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:13","slug":"toto-bona-lokua-ma-mama-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/toto-bona-lokua-ma-mama-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Bona Lokua unveils a beautiful animated music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><strong class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10772 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama.jpg\" alt=\"Toto Bona Lokua Ma Mama\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama-1010x568.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-Ma-Mama-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Trio Toto Bona Lokua works with animation director Katy Wang for\u00a0\u2018Ma Mama\u2019, their current single lifted from forthcoming album <em>Bondeko<\/em>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A collaboration between Gerald Toto, Richard Bona and Lokua Kanza, Toto Bona Lokua have today released the new animated video for their current single \u2018Ma Mama\u2019, directed by Partizan\u2019s Katy Wang (<i>It\u2019s Nice That<\/i> Graduate Of The Year 2017).\u00a0 Their upcoming album \u2018Bondeko\u2019 is the long-awaited follow up to their much-praised debut release, 2004\u2019s \u2018Totobonalokua\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Katy Wang\u2019s creation for \u2018Ma Mama\u2019 incorporates the tender love story at the heart of Gerald Toto\u2019s song-writing into a colour-popping animation, influenced in part by the vivid palette of traditional African textiles. Says Katy of the animation; \u201cAfter finding out that the band was made up of three singers from France (Martinique), Cameroon, and the Republic of Congo, I was inspired to research African textiles, particularly Kuba cloth, which originates from the Republic of Congo. The overall feel of the film is dreamy, surreal, and visually exciting to watch &#8211; it\u2019s a love story but told in a very innocent, playful way, of two people exploring this animated world together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch\u00a0\u2018Ma Mama\u2019 music video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xIwRXnTb0yw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Read next:\u00a0<\/em><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/focus-label-no-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Label focus: N\u00d8 F\u00d8RMAT!<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trio Toto Bona Lokua works with animation director Katy Wang for\u00a0\u2018Ma Mama\u2019, their current single lifted from forthcoming album Bondeko. A collaboration between Gerald Toto, Richard Bona and Lokua Kanza, Toto Bona Lokua have today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4497,5305,6026,6520],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42511"}],"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=42511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42511"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42511"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}