Tomorrow, January 14 at 7pm, the Instituto Francés in Madrid will be offering an online concert by the group DJUSU, which will be featured on their Facebook Live page.
DJUSU, in the Malinke language, means “the heart”. This heart beats in Abidjan, the bustling cosmopolitan capital of West Africa. The flow of its arteries has transported the group’s members all over the world: Bamako, Accra, Dakar, Addis-Ababa, Brazza, Lagos, Luanda, Conakry and Timbuktu. With a predilection for the psychedelic and hypnotic formats of the 70s and 80s, Djusu borrowed the energies of highlife, mandingo, m’balax, rumba and other ethnicities, intrinsically associated with his universe. This trio formation (voice/guitar/pumpkin) elaborates a deeply organic music, which invites to a road trip without borders, a trance of the soul, an immersion in the emotions. DJUSU. Marked by its Ivorian culture, its lyrics are in Attié, in Akan or Dioula. Her songs speak of solidarity, animism, protest and optimism. The ahoko, a traditional Ivorian instrument, accompanies her.
