{"id":42564,"date":"2017-10-09T12:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T10:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/trio-toto-bona-lokua-reforms-to-release-new-album\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:34","slug":"trio-toto-bona-lokua-reforms-to-release-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/trio-toto-bona-lokua-reforms-to-release-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio Toto Bona Lokua reforms to release new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><span class=\"pam-featured-content\"  style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9408 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4459\" height=\"3185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-scaled.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-1010x721.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-1440x1029.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toto-Bona-Lokua-5-%C2%A9-Manu-Lagos-min-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8216;Ma Mama&#8217; is the first single of Toto Bona Lokuanew album Bondeko. 13 years later, trio&#8217;s alchemy is still working.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Martinican G\u00e9rald Toto, Cameroonian\u00a0Richard Bona\u00a0and Congolose Lokua Kanza made one of No Format&#8217;s founder albums in 2004. Three voices that are equal, three singular careers, three quite distinct universes with one thing in common, like a nutritive sun, more or less distant : Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><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><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sensitive, carnal, coloured, alive and lived by Richard and Lokua &#8211; the former from the Cameroon, born on a plateau named Adamaoua, between the savannah and the virgin forest, the latter from the Congo &#8211; both linked by the might of the Congo river sweeping along the myths and reality of a timeless Earth &#8211; and the experience of exile, the discovery of ultra-contemporary cosmopolitanism tinted with the nostalgia that belongs to diasporas. Inherited, confiscated for G\u00e9rald, a Caribbean born in Paris, carried away in turn on the great drive of his deported ancestors, in the vanguard, despite himself, of this new, crossbred world that is to come, already here, there and elsewhere&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Listen to\u00a0&#8220;Ma Mama&#8221;\u00a0on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/1kVpCB5UaQfJ7dZD92zE8e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/en\/playlist\/2321792422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Toto Bona Lokua,\u00a0<em>Bondeko<\/em>, out November 3rd in France and January 12th worldwide, via\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noformat.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Format<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dT1fmnoY3Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9409\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tbl-rvb-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Ma Mama&#8217; is the first single of Toto Bona Lokuanew album Bondeko. 13 years later, trio&#8217;s alchemy is still working. 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