RENDEZ-VOUS À BoBO

Rendez-Vous à Bobo is a monthly podcast dedicated to African music in all its forms and styles.

In each episode, our very own Lucas Keen (musician and music teacher devoted to the drum and every sound related to the African Continent and its diaspora) meets music and musical instruments spanning Casablanca to Cape Town, Dakar to Dar es Salaam.

Podcast: Rendez-Vous à Bobo – A Beginner’s Guide To Baloji (January 2021)

Rendez-vous with Lucas for a beginner’s guide to Baloji – the multi-faceted artist from DRC via Belgium making some of the most inventive Afrofuturist music and visuals about. Track List 1. Baloji – Le Reste Du Monde [from Hotel impala, EMI Music Belgium, 2007] 2. Baloji – Congo Eza Ya Biso [from Kinshasa Succursale; Crammed Discs,...

Podcast: Rendez-Vous à Bobo – A Waltz in New Orleans (November 2020)

Something a little different this month as Lucas Keen makes a rendez-vous with the greatest jazz musician you’ve never heard of! Celebrating the West African origins of jazz – A Waltz in New Orleans is the fictionalised account of the birth of the modern drum set in New Orleans narrated...

Podcast: Rendez-Vous à Bobo – A Rendez-Vous with ‘Le Vieux’ (October 2020)

To celebrate October when the UK’s African film festivals usually happen and to mark Black History Month (though Rendez-vous à Bobo is here for Black history 365!) Rendez-Vous à Bobo salutes the great Ousmane Sembène, the polymath director known as ‘Le Vieux’, the father of African cinema, and one of the greats,...

Podcast: Rendez-Vous à Bobo – A Rendez-Vous with Independence (August 2020)

2020 marks 60 years since independence for 17 African countries. For his latest Rendez-Vous à Bobo, Rhythm Passport’s Lucas Keen revisits 1960 sometimes known as ‘The Year of Africa’ to explore the euphoria and cultural renaissance of the epoch that followed via music from Nigeria, Congo, Burkina Faso and Mali....