For today’s Daily Discovery we travel from Mbour to Stuttgart with Aldiana Fall and “Nit ku bakh”, the latest chapter in his self-defined Giaar music project.

Born Mame Cheikh Seck in the Senegalese coastal town of Mbour, Aldiana Fall grew up in a griot household where drum language and storytelling shaped daily life. He founded the group Touba Fall Djachas Ritmo in the late 1990s, moved to Paris in 2000, and has been based in Stuttgart since 2009, carrying Senegalese percussion traditions into European contexts and developing what he calls Giaar music along the way.

The approach centres live percussion: djembe, dundun, and xhin, the Baye Fall sacred instrument. Wolof lyrics carry Sufi-rooted themes, often addressing figures within the Mouride tradition. Earlier single “Touba” laid this out clearly, and “Lamp A Tak Bamba Fégn” continued the line with a small recurring ensemble including Bay Fall Tak Diok on vocals and drums and Philippe Victor Michel Ndong on guitar.

“Nit ku bakh” arrived on 19 December via Aldiana Fall’s own Giaar Music imprint. The title draws from a Wolof expression meaning “a good person”: someone with honour, faith, self-control. It’s a phrase that appears in proverbs, religious texts and everyday speech as a model of character. By choosing it, Aldiana Fall extends the devotional thread into direct reflection on conduct and ethics.

Listen and stream the track HERE