Tiken Jah Fakoly - Braquage de pouvoir (Inédits) '2023

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Tiken Jah Fakoly's musical success, spanning more than three decades, is founded
on four cornerstones, the foundation of which stands for his clear and
uncompromising reggae and is reflected just as clearly and unmistakably in the
popular African musician's lyrics. Be it as a defender of the oppressed or as a
constant thumb in the wound of the tyrants he names.

Already in the early 90s, with his first band 'Djélys" in Odienné, a town
in the northwest of the Ivory Coast, Tiken Jah stood out with his deep, haunting
voice. However, a major success and the first of the strong cornerstones was his
debut album under his name, 'Mangercratie" (1999), made in Abidjan. It shook
both the local reggae scene, but above all the powers-that-be, the decadent
upper class, the "old gluttons," as he dubbed them, who ignored the signs of the
times and clung to power. He laid the second foundation in Paris, the central
nerve of France, with his third album 'Françafrique" (2002), a term that
informally stands for - as Tiken Jah denounced in his lyrics - France's
antiquated political system and its mafia-like structures.

That same year, his country, Ivory Coast, was torn apart by civil war. His
countrymen had "lost their minds," as he had prophesied earlier in one of his
song lyrics. Fakoly sought shelter in Bamako, but without feeling like a
refugee, because "Africa is united," Africa is united, as he had always
proclaimed. In Bamako, he laid the third cornerstone with the aptly named 'L
"Africain" (his fifth album, 2007), followed by the fourth cornerstone, the
magnificent 'African Revolution" (2010), his seventh album, which formed the
final foundation: a revolutionary cry, a direct political call, unleashed in the
sheer, simple reggae rhythms, unannounced and all the more beautiful and
powerful for it.

His eleventh and latest album 'Braquage de pouvoir" (Rape of power) continues
this path. The album hits the nerve to the point, because it is not content to
summarize Tiken Jah's musical and political achievements, but reveals in its
entirety the essence of the Fakolian style - an adjective we dare to invent, as
Tiken Jah Fakoly dared to create these strong pillars.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Tiken Jah Fakoly - Compliqué (3:05)
1.02 - Tiken Jah Fakoly - Laissez le peuple libre (3:14)
1.03 - Tiken Jah Fakoly - Tous ensemble (3:21)
1.04 - Tiken Jah Fakoly - La guerre est là (3:30)
1.05 - Tiken Jah Fakoly - Te prendre dans mes bras (3:20)

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