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Description: | African Singer-songwriter Blick Bassy is back with a fifth album, again sung in the Baasa
language of Cameroon. MadÃbÃĄ brings together twelve songs in the form of fables, dedicated
to the theme of water, in which his high and angelic voice dominates, carried by delicate
guitar, synthesizer melodies, and sober brass arrangements. The cuts are diaphanous and
nevertheless modernist songs, which testify to a contemporary and poetic Africanity at the
crossroads of soul, folk, and electro.
Blick Bassyâ??s albums have a humanist and universal dimension. His fifth and new solo album,
titled MadÃbÃĄ, which means water in the Douala language of Cameroon, comes in the form
of songs close to the fable, in which Bassy explores "a theme shared by allâ? of water, the
source of life. The fables of the album, all born in the imagination of Blick, explore in a more
concrete way different themes related to water, its rarity, its necessity, its energy or its vital
power. The twelve songs all bring together a series of figures, animals, or various characters,
embodied in turn by Blick Bassy. "I have fun stepping into the shoes of a bird, a cat
conversing with an elephant, a flower worrying about its declining beauty, a monkey looking
for a spring or a storyteller with his grandchildren. In these texts, water can even take on a
human appearance.â?
Beyond the tale, the texts of the album also refer to our climate crisis, or to the problems of
access to water, a way for the artist to approach serious subjects through a poetic form
which avoids didactic or moralizing speeches. - |
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