The result is a joyous three minute Afrobeats-genge song, pairing sampled acoustic instrumentation with a club-focused bassline that is punctuated by Mejja\u2019s genge-referencing verses. The Kenyan rapper was Kutiman\u2019s first choice, following his popular features with the likes of afropop group Sauti Sol<\/a> and rapper Femi One. \u201cI loved Mejja\u2019s vibe and he did an incredible job in putting together a narrative for the song out of all the lyrics, as well as combining them into his own unique style,<\/em>\u201d Kutiman says. The video, simple and light-hearted, adds a pleasant DIY feel to the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This audio collaging method is not unusual for Kutiman, who gained notoriety for his 2009 Thru You<\/em> projects, where he edited together clips of amateur YouTube musicians into seamlessly coherent compositions. He later went on releasing a project based on field recordings made on the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, focusing on Indian classical instrumentation on Guruji<\/em>, and dropping 2021\u2019s Surface Currents <\/em>of ambient modular experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen to “Timam” in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Israelian producer teamed up with the Kenyan rapper for this special track, composed by crowdsourcing. \u201cTimam\u201d was born when Kutiman was approached by crowdsourcing app Task Mate to create a song made up entirely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":97828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[20359,41139],"location":[8078,8092],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,9172,8996,8932,11385,11238,34811,9202,8543,14303,8619,8449,8848],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97826"}],"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=97826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97826"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=97826"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=97826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mejja-kutiman-timam.jpg\")
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