Daily Discovery: Birame Seck & Awale Jant Band – Demon Na (Live @ Printworks, Hastings)

Awale Jant Band have released a live version of “Demon Na”, filmed at The Printworks, a Victorian live music venue on the America Ground quarter of Hastings. The studio single came out in November 2025 on AudioMaze, the second release of last year from London-based Senegalese vocalist Birame Seck and French guitarist and producer Thibaut Remy, ahead of their forthcoming album Gawlo Bi.

Seck sings in Wolof and English, the lyric built around the experience of leaving and returning: “I’ve walked through France and England’s skies, touched Europe’s colours, heard many cries”. The title, “Demon Na”, is Wolof for “I have gone”, and the song makes that literal, tracing the narrator’s path from Senegal through Europe to America and back, carrying what that journey cost and what it taught. Ben Brown on drums and Karlos Seck on congas and djembe drive the rhythm, John Martin on tenor sax and George Jefford on trumpet above Mike Idowu‘s bass, with Remy’s electric guitar threading between the horns.

Awale Jant Band take their name from the Wolof for “let the sun pass through”, a philosophy of cultural openness that extends directly into their personal histories. Frontman Birame Seck is the son of a gawlo, a griot in the Pulaar tradition, and the upcoming album, Gawlo Bi, takes its title from that exact heritage. The band have been building their London following for nearly a decade, appearing across the UK festival circuit, and 2026 sees them on the bill at Africa Oyé in Sefton Park, Liverpool on 20 & 21 June.

Stream and listen to “Demon Na” HERE