Falatô is Massas third album – and his first with a large band line-up. Drums, bass, guitar, shimmering synthesizer solos, crisp brass and, above all, the voice and camel N’Goni of Massa Dembele: ‘Falatô’, recorded in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, with local musicians, is Afrobeat and jazz, West African soul, desert blues and griot music. The album sounds like Fela Kuti, like Ali Farka Touré, and at the same time it sounds unmistakably like Massa Dembele – the throaty, powerful voice, the hypnotic harp cascades of his N’Goni.
Line-up ‘Falatô’
Massa Dembele / Vocals, Kamele N’Goni
Achille Nakoulma / Drums, Calebasse
Ousmane Koita Foudé / Guitar
Bouba Outtarra / Bass
Innnocent Esiaku Kwavimi / Trumpet
Kientege KJentega N’Manegda / Saxophone
Faisal Diarra Moussa / Flute
Parido Sanou Mohamad / Piano
Moussa Diara / Balafon
Seydou Diabaté / Balafon
Adama de Pamayerie Tama / Arako
Kassoum Dembele Chekere / Maracas, Vocals
Awa Guindo / Vocals
Fatoumata Dembele / Vocals
Fofana Sendia / Vocals