Magic Malik and his new team have found their own Africa-Oasis, made of melodies, rhythms and unheard-of songs.
The project is called Kafrobeat, in reference to the Guadeloupean Ka and the Afrobeat of Fela. The flutist-composer and eternal experimenter has brought together nine talented musicians to set up a musical writing process based on an oral tradition, with a precise aesthetic goal: to go in search of this link to Africa, whether it be personal, cultural or musical. The experience proved to be fascinating, creating a totally new music and a group with a formidable rhythmic and melodic coherence. And if several first-rate voices are invited to the affair – Sandra Nkaké, the Senegalese rapper Gaston Bandimic – it is also the first time that Malik assumes the role of singer, with his voice soaring with magic.