{"id":42723,"date":"2017-05-10T16:59:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/malian-diva-will-release-her-new-album-the-19-may-via-parisian-record-label-no-format\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:39:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:39:11","slug":"malian-diva-will-release-her-new-album-the-19-may-via-parisian-record-label-no-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/malian-diva-will-release-her-new-album-the-19-may-via-parisian-record-label-no-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Oumou Sangar\u00e9 unveils new single &#8216;Kamelemba&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5465 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960-759x466.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960-661x406.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960-465x286.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960-375x230.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960-340x208.jpg 340w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Oumou_cBenoit_Peverelli_960-190x116.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Malian diva will release her new album the 19 May via parisian record label <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/focus-label-no-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Format<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>After a break of eight years,<strong> Oumou Sangar\u00e9<\/strong> announced her come back with a new album, Mogoya (meaning \u2018people today\u2019). First single &#8216;Yere Faga&#8217; was recorded with <strong>Tony Allen<\/strong> and had receive <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/oumou-sangare-yere-faga-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a breathtaking music video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oumou releases today &#8216;<em>Kamelemba&#8217;,\u00a0<\/em>the album&#8217; second single. Like the first one, we are immediatly struck by the minimalist bassline which serves as foundations for this progressive song. It also<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0features Sangar\u00e9\u2019s long-standing and trusted Kamel N\u2019goni player, <strong>Benogo Diakit\u00e9<\/strong>, alongside young Malian guitar player <strong>Guimba Kouyat\u00e9<\/strong>. The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">French production collective<strong> A.l.b.e.r.t.<\/strong> (who have also worked with <strong>Air<\/strong>, <strong>Beck<\/strong> and <strong>Franz Ferdinand<\/strong>) have added drum, bass and keyboards to give the track a new modernity and to emphasise the raw power of Oumou\u2019s voice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/321709804&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the song, Oumou sings to women about the dangers of falling in love with sweet talkers and liars. <\/span>Kamelemba<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is inspired by the track, <\/span>Dugu Kamelemba,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from her 1993 album \u2018Ko Sira\u2019, which was written when Oumou was just 24 years old. Talking about the song now, Oumou says, \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it\u2019s about men who show off, who bring women down, about women who fall badly in love. I wrote that song to give advice to our sisters to be careful, because there are loads of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kamelemba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> out there\u2019. Oumou also explains that the lyrics are meant with a good deal of humour, \u2018we do a lot of teasing in African music. We tease each other, but it isn\u2019t malicious. These are messages we need to get across, but they\u2019re not really mean. \u00a0I accuse men, but some say, \u2018women are like that too!\u2019\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Catch Oumou Sangar\u00e9 in London the 17 May (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/180724975743990\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Village Underground<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6627\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"992\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare.jpg 992w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Oumou-Sangare-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malian diva will release her new album the 19 May via parisian record label No Format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[6520],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42723"}],"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=42723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42723"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42723"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}