{"id":80251,"date":"2021-05-17T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/vaudou-game-noussin\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:28:03","slug":"vaudou-game-noussin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/vaudou-game-noussin\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaudou Game unveils Noussin, an album built for these times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Solo\u2019s band, the perfect embodiment of Togolese funk, announce their new project via two singles, &#8220;Bella&#8221; and &#8220;Be My Wife.&#8221; <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Togolese guitarist and singer Peter Solo (real name Viwanou D\u00e9boutoh) makes his comeback with Vaudou Game, one of the main actors of African funk within the diasporas in Europe. Following the confinement, Peter Solo and Vaudou Game found themselves back in the studio, originally to produce an EP.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Be My Wife\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QVl-TTebPSE?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Vaudou Game &#8211; Be My Wife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, the group has emerged with a new album, <em>Noussin<\/em>, which was heavily influenced by the economic and social context following the health crisis that reinforced many inequalities. In &#8220;Be My Wife,&#8221; Peter Solo sings: &#8220;<em>You take risks every day, for you death does not exist. But when the wolf came, ouch, ouch, ouch.<\/em>&#8221; With this fourth album Peter Solo abandons the saxophone, trumpet and trombone for the first time in favor of keyboards, through which he generates an irresistible brand of Afro-rock. The artist reconnects with his London years in order to encourage the world to &#8220;stay strong,&#8221; as the title of the album illustrates: <em>Noussin <\/em>(meaning \u201cstay strong\u201d in Mina, Togo\u2019s majority language). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Noussin<\/em> will be released on June 11 via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/hotcasarecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Casa Records<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out Vaudou Game in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1af55352-noussin-vaudou-game.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Solo\u2019s band, the perfect embodiment of Togolese funk, announce their new project via two singles, &#8220;Bella&#8221; and &#8220;Be My Wife.&#8221; The Togolese guitarist and singer Peter Solo (real name Viwanou D\u00e9boutoh) makes his comeback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":80172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[1490,959,1721,589],"location":[8316],"yst_prominent_words":[8576,8403,13606,38786,38785,38831,13101,8621,38787,8435,38832,27765,38783,10040,38833,8543,24695,38784,38788,8449],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251"}],"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=80251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80251"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=80251"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=80251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}