Maga Bo
Archipelagoes

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Conceived and produced during Maga Bo's extensive time struggles in Africa. He leveraged offdays as a film sound recordist into kamikaze production sessions. A $6 hotel room turns into a recording studio...World music is music with truly global reach: 50 Cent, U2, Shakira. ARCHIPELAGOES is the other thing - emissions from the flip side where (it's happening, now) vocals recorded in one-room studios on a microphone taped to a refrigerator in lieu of a stand get released on the internet and played over local sound systems that same night. By the next day the track has been sampled again by youth 6-time-zones away and mashed up with whatever local concoctions they got going on. Maga Bo's tapped into that weird new force-field.. I don't know what it is, but it helped his album turn beautiful... aided by a mix of knucklehead determination and the gifted accidents that fall when understanding happens despite the friction of honest collaboration, despite itself. ARCHIPELAGOES. Maga Bo's music makes people dance better. I've seen this happen. Everyone who's caught his live show knows it... You can hear his production voice (low-end crafted for extra bump, those melodic string stabs, his sound engineer skills in full flex) hold together music made by loitering after work in Senegal, Zanzibar, Capetown. The stories of its making got pressed into the sound. Some of the unGoogleable contributors are African musical luminaries, famous in places where the street doesn't talk to the internet. The overall vibe pulls a bigger picture into focus. Or maybe it is a process. Last I talked to Maga Bo he was (finally) at home in Rio de Janeiro. In the background I heard explosions. "No, they're just fixing my kitchen." he said. "It's been broken for a year and a half." Maga Bo. Archipelagoes. featuring: ALIF, Teba, Max Normal Pee Froiss,Kalaf,....