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Global Music Column – January

  • Jan 17, 2025
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Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta – Mapambazuko

Peruvian multi-instrumentalist Ale Hop has a knack for unsettling reinventions of musical traditions. On her last album, 2023’s Agua Dulce, she and percussionist Laura Robles reimagined the cajón, electronically processing the instrument’s rhythms with skittering synths and rumbling sub-bass to produce eerie, unpredictable percussion. She returns with Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta, the pair’s lively debut record delivering a new take on the folk-pop sounds of Congolese soukous.


Read the review in the Guardian.


[This piece was published on 17/01/25]

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