Today’s Daily Discovery heads between Paris and Abidjan with Wetakeoff and “Afèfè Tuntun”, the first single from his upcoming debut album WEFLY.

Fabrice Gaba has spent over a decade in music publishing, managing catalogues and placing tracks in productions like Donald Glover’s Atlanta. Now recording as Wetakeoff, he’s releasing his own music. “Afèfè Tuntun” came out of Wetakeoff Camp, the international sessions Gaba runs between Paris and Abidjan to bring producers and artists into the same room, and it was co-written by Victorya Makinde and Wizbeatz.

The track pairs Makinde’s Yoruba vocal with Afro-house and electronic production. Her lyric keeps returning to healing, peace and blessing, with “Mabo” translated as “come”, repeated until it operates as a chant cue inside the rhythm. The percussion writing carries West African phrasing, while synth parts and electronic programming sit in support, keeping the voice and drums sharply defined at high volume.

Gaba’s father, Christian “Gabelo” Gaba, was a Togolese singer-songwriter and percussionist who sang in Mina and French, won early recognition at a Togolese songwriting festival, and later established APRYNO, the Association for the Promotion of Black Rhythms, in Lyon. That Lyon-based network around African rhythm and pedagogy feeds directly into Wetakeoff Camp, the sessions Gaba now runs between Paris and Abidjan.

Stream and listen to the single HERE