After a successful first production in 2017, the first all-female supergroup of nine West African singers returns with an ambitious second album, opening up horizons of collaboration with 16 artists from various countries (Ethiopia, France, Colombia, Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Spain, Guyana). Recorded in Bamako, this polyglot and multi-generational album keeps the same guideline: to use music to implement a discourse of disruption, committed to the fight for greater equality for, and against directed at, women worldwide.
Thanks to a plethora of stylistic alliances, each track glows with a different colour, infused with modernity. It’s a mosaic of cultures, where R&B, electronic, dancehall, reggae, funk, chaabi and hip hop intertwine. The tracks follow one another and, despite the range of influences, Amazones Power sways confidently between the avant-garde and griot tradition. The plural origins of the collective unite in a sublime hymn to the feminine condition, to its vulnerabilities, to its present and future gains. Male voices from the diaspora are also involved.
This second album, with its Afrofuturist aesthetics, exudes a charm inherent to its melodic quality and its militant fervour, all the more so as it constitutes a musical testimony of great cultural richness. We can only encourage you to discover this remarkable enterprise.
Latest 360 Content
Interview Rock
Alex Henry Foster Talks About Overcoming Death and his new album, Kimiyo
By Stephan Boissonneault
Interview Classical/classique
Information: Montreal Oct. 1970 by Tim Brady: a first opera about the October ’70 Crisis
By Frédéric Cardin
Album review Electronic/Hip Hop/hyperpop 2024
Single of the Day: Kaya Hoax ft. Magi Merlin “Hot Girls with ADD”
By Stephan Boissonneault
Album review Americana/Pop
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poet Department: The Anthology
By Alain Brunet
Album review classique/musique traditionnelle/Classical/trad québécois 2024
Karina Gauvin – Marie Hubert : Fille du Roy
By Frédéric Cardin
Interview Folk/Americana/Rock/hyperpop
P’tit Belliveau Talks About His New Album, Frogs, and Income Tax
By Stephan Boissonneault
Interview Rock/Electronic/Experimental / Contemporary/expérimental / contemporain/Pop
At Annie-Claude Deschênes’ table: between utensils & sound experimentation
By Louise Jaunet
Concert review
Université de Montréal | Jean-François Rivest’s Grandiose Farewell
By Elena Mandolini
Interview classique/Jazz/Classical
OSL | Naomi Woo | Musique du Nouveau Monde
By Alexandre Villemaire
Album review classique/Jazz 2024
Nadia Labrie – Flute Passion – Claude Bolling : Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
By Frédéric Cardin
Album review Classical/classique 2024
David Jalbert – Prokofiev : Piano Sonatas vol. II
By Frédéric Cardin
Interview Rock/Electronic/Pop/Jazz