Synths south of the Sahara

Rendez-vous à Bobo is celebrating reinvention and musical magpies this month.

There is music from Afrikan Boy



And I'm telling the story of synths in Africa.

We also take a look at Afrofuturism, an artistic movement offering a reply to the third world stereotype often imposed on Africa.

 
Pumzi a science fiction film from Kenya screened at The Cambridge African Film Festival 2010

Rendez-vous à Bobo February 2014 by Rendez-Vous À Bobo on Mixcloud

Performing at The MAA

A few weeks back I was invited to provide music for an event at The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. Sing That Thing was the finale of  a term of singing workshops exploring the objects in the museum and the stories behind them.

The museum had a wonderful acoustic and atmosphere