South African producer and DJ Mo Laudi returns with “Sowa Pt. 2”, a reimagining of his earlier track that sharpens its focus and expands its emotional range. Built around a lean Afro-house foundation, the track folds in the log-drum basslines of amapiano and the rougher, percussive drive of Bacardi house. The production remains stripped yet restless, weaving a sound that feels grounded in tradition and pulled towards the future. Over this shifting, syncopated framework, Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara carries the song forward, her voice in Bambara cutting cleanly across the low-end throb and the intricate rhythms.

Mo Laudi has spent two decades forging a path between Johannesburg, London and Paris, developing a strain of Afro-electro sound that refuses easy categorisation. His work draws from kwaito, highlife, house and global bass without slipping into pastiche, always keeping the pressure sharp and the politics close to the surface. Fatoumata Diawara, meanwhile, stands as one of Mali’s most distinctive contemporary voices, rooted in Wassoulou musical tradition but fluent across genres, collaborating with artists from Roberto Fonseca to Gorillaz without losing her footing. Her contribution here resists easy sentimentality, threading melody without smoothing over the track’s tension.

Rather than blending into an easy fusion, “Sowa Pt. 2” holds its contradictions deliberately. It bridges South African club sounds with West African songcraft, but without flattening either.

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