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Mbife is the first single of a new wave of music composed by London’s well loved kora playing badman and his Banjul-London swagger.

Mbife means ‘I love you/I like you’. Susso writes: “My inspiration here is love, trust and sincerity. Everyone has their own love scenarios and this [song] is not only my story or about me who has fallen in love. I open the subject very wide. I consider love and then take that energy beyond its normal boxed in romantic ideas. I start by wanting to take it to the club.”

Mbife is a noticeable upbeat change in Susso’s style, breaking the tempo and bass and moving from his highly dexterous jazz and funk formations that we’ve grown to expect from his albums Banjul-London (2017) and Malaye Warr (2012). Anyone following his career will know that this metamorphosis comes as no surprise however. Susso has been working in the electronic scene for nearly six years straight with his other project Afriquoi,: “This [experience] gave me different inspirations. Of hearing another progressive way of bringing the roots of Afro Manding to the clubs.”

"The kora resides at the heart of his music but with lashings of more funky rhythms." - Jazz FM

"Not your usual kora player and not your usual griot" - Rhythm Passport

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released March 16, 2018
Produced by Jally Kebba Susso
Recorded by 4Real-Studio, Glasgow UK
Mixed and mastered by Xalem Studio, Banjul Gambia

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Jally Kebba Susso London, UK

Pioneering UK Gambian kora player.

For folks who love their kora fast, funky, fresh.

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