Ibaaku Showcase at Visa For Music (Morocco)

Ibaaku Showcase at Visa For Music (Morocco)

We are very proud and excited to have Ibaaku featured as one of the showcased artists at this year’s Visa For Music in Rabat, Morocco! Catch the Afro-futuristic musical wizard Saturday November 19, details here.

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Ibaaku Showcase at Visa For Music (Morocco)

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Ibaaku @ Trans Musicales

Ibaaku @ Trans Musicales

We’re very proud to annonce that Ibaaku will perform at the much coveted Trans Musicales festival in Rennes (France). Great write-up on their site, here’s the translated version:

Men come from Mars, women from Venus. Ibaaku says he comes from Galsen. We know little about this planet, besides that its orbit sometimes coincides with Saturn’s, home to Sun Ra, pioneer of Afrofuturism, this cosmic reinterpretation of Black Music, which contributed to the shaping of a Black identity. Jazz however did not fuel the ship which carried this multifaceted creator to Dakar. Hip hop did. A hip hop freed from its monologues, distilled in the most experimental electronic mixture, fused with Senegalese specificities , a sound whose iridescence evokes the Beat Scene federated in LA around Flying Lotus. Simply staggering.

 

Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer qu’Ibaaku va jouer aux Trans Musicales à Rennes. Belle description d’Ibaaku sur leur site:

“Les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes de Vénus. Ibaaku, lui, dit venir de Galsen. De cette planète, on sait peu de choses. Si ce n’est que son orbite épouse par endroits celle de Saturne, astre d’origine de Sun Ra, pionnier de l’afrofuturisme, cette relecture cosmique de la Great Black Music qui contribua à l’affirmation d’une identité noire. Ce n’est toutefois pas au jazz que carbure le vaisseau qui a transporté ce créateur protéiforme jusqu’à Dakar, mais au hip hop. Un hip hop purifié de ses monologues, dilué dans une mixture électronique des plus expérimentales, infusé de particularismes sénégalais et dont les reflets irisés évoquent les travaux de la Beat Scene que fédère Flying Lotus (passé aux Trans en 2007) à Los Angeles. Tout simplement sidérant.”

 

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Ibaaku @ Trans Musicales

We’re very proud to annonce that Ibaaku will perform at the much coveted Trans Musicales festival in Rennes (France). Great write-up on their site, here’s the translated version:

Men come from Mars, women from Venus. Ibaaku says he comes from Galsen. We know little about this planet, besides that its orbit sometimes coincides with Saturn’s, home to Sun Ra, pioneer of Afrofuturism, this cosmic reinterpretation of Black Music, which contributed to the shaping of a Black identity. Jazz however did not fuel the ship which carried this multifaceted creator to Dakar. Hip hop did. A hip hop freed from its monologues, distilled in the most experimental electronic mixture, fused with Senegalese specificities , a sound whose iridescence evokes the Beat Scene federated in LA around Flying Lotus. Simply staggering.

 

Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer qu’Ibaaku va jouer aux Trans Musicales à Rennes. Belle description d’Ibaaku sur leur site:

“Les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes de Vénus. Ibaaku, lui, dit venir de Galsen. De cette planète, on sait peu de choses. Si ce n’est que son orbite épouse par endroits celle de Saturne, astre d’origine de Sun Ra, pionnier de l’afrofuturisme, cette relecture cosmique de la Great Black Music qui contribua à l’affirmation d’une identité noire. Ce n’est toutefois pas au jazz que carbure le vaisseau qui a transporté ce créateur protéiforme jusqu’à Dakar, mais au hip hop. Un hip hop purifié de ses monologues, dilué dans une mixture électronique des plus expérimentales, infusé de particularismes sénégalais et dont les reflets irisés évoquent les travaux de la Beat Scene que fédère Flying Lotus (passé aux Trans en 2007) à Los Angeles. Tout simplement sidérant.”

 

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