Name: History
Brand: Bokante

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LPRW244

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0884108011232

Total Cap

Black LP

CDRW244

884108011249

Artist

Bokante

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Real World

Recording studios established by [a11136]. (Legal entity behind the recording operations Real World Studios Ltd.)

Real World Studios is a residential recording studio in Box, Wiltshire, England associated with the [l4066] Ltd. record label, founded by [a11136].
Among many other unique facilities it has one of the world's largest control rooms, which allows special recording situations whereby musicians, engineers, producers and guests are no longer separated during the recording process.

Name variations as it appears on one or more releases:
- Real World Studios, England
- Real World Studios, Bath
- Realworld Studios
- The Bunker at Real World Studios (UK)
- The Bunker, Real World Studios (UK)
- The Bunker, Real World Studios, England
- The Bunker

On their third album, Bokanté have plugged into the blues, tracing the genre's roots in West Africa and the Arab world through the diaspora into the retro-modern present. These nine tracks tell — with lyrics sung mainly in Guadeloupean Creole — of outsiders and seers, memories and joy; of black history, global unity and the futility of war. Of taking time to rest, feel, love. Of the redemptive power of music — as a conduit, a change maker, a muse.

<i>History</i> finds Bokanté exploring further, dressing folkloric instruments including the Arabic oud, West African ngoni and North African guembri, the bass lute favoured by Morocco's Gnawa maalems, in western clothes.

History

Music GB