Sabar beats and Wolof rap, dystopian electronics and dub textures, in an earthy, urban, futurist, yet deep-rooted soundworld; Fofoulah have developed a unique forward-looking sound the old-fashioned way: through playing, working and experimenting together to evoke, as they put it, “the spirit of morphing and connectivity.”
Fofoulah (meaning "it's there" in Wolof) is a London-based group, featuring Senegalese vocalist, dancer and percussionist Batch Gueye, Gambian sabar drummer and vocalist Kaw Secka, Red Snapper collaborator Tom Challenger on sax and keys, Phil Stevenson on guitar, Johnny Brierley on bass, and drummer Dave Smith (Robert Plant, Juju).
But Fofoulah is not merely a cross-cultural project. They are a dynamic band born naturally out of personal friendships and varied backgrounds, the nerve net of contemporary London and the post-global interconnectedness we all experience daily.
“Fofoulah have set sail toward an original sound." The Wire
"It's subtle, beckoning with its toes in the ancestral mud, but this is modern music, intriguing and well-textured." fRoots
“A ricocheting lunar-tropical bounding dub cosmology.” Monolith Cocktail
With the rhythms of the Sabar drums - a traditional form of Wolof drumming from Gambia and Senegal – at its heart, Fofoulah's music has evolved into an inspired cosmopolitan mélange that also incorporates elements of electronic music, dub, jazz, afro-rock and Wolof dance.
Their critically acclaimed debut album 'Fofoulah', produced by Smith, was released on Glitterbeat Records in September 2014. They followed up this trailblazing album with some intense shows which led to an even more shapeshifting and adventurous album, ‘Daega Rek’ (meaning “The Truth”), released at the end of 2018, which is brought into sharp focus by the infectious rhythms and shamanic chants of Secka and vivid production of Challenger.
"Fofoulah ... are properly outlandish, teleporting the listener to some West African metropolis a hundred years in the future … The stuttering foundation beats for Daega Rek were created by Dave Smith, drummer with Robert Plant’s Sensational Space Shifters, often evoking a pan-African junglist mutation (Seye; Chebou Jane), while Challenger’s avant-questing synths (Pulo; Njite) add cosmic perplexity. With rhymes on Grenfell (Kaddy) and the truth (title track), this one’s fierce on every level.” Mojo
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CONTACT
UK & EUROPE BOOKING: David Flower - [email protected]
CANADA/USA BOOKING: Michael Owen - [email protected]
MEDIA: Ilka Schlockermann - [email protected]
BAND: Dave Smith - [email protected]
LABEL: Chris Eckman - [email protected]
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