Radia Show 1027: LGMN “Loo gëm,mu nekk” (Bocar Niang / *Duuu Radio)

*Duuu Radio presents a compilation of tracks from the vinyl “Lo gëm, mu nekk”, by the artist Bocar Niang, edited and pressed by *Duuu in 2023.

The vinyl LGMN is a rap album consisting of 10 tracks. The album explores its musical influences through the variety of languages that resonate within it, including Wolof, English, and French. This musical project is the result of six years of research into writing, composition, and the dissemination of music. The phrase “Lo gëm, mu nekk” could be translated from Wolof into French as “Advient ce en quoi tu crois” (“Let what you believe in come to pass”). Bocar envisions Lo gëm, mu nekk as a slogan for young Senegalese people, offering hope and courage to Senegalese society, Africa, and its diaspora, who endure the oppressive weight of perpetuated African dictatorships.

LGMN calls for dialogue, open-mindedness, and a shift in mentalities. It advocates for friendship, solidarity, and mutual respect among the inhabitants of Earth. Sound art serves as a powerful means to connect and share “good vibes.”

Bocar Niang was born a griot in a family of griots in Tambacounda, Senegal. A performer, poet, visual artist, and musician, Bocar Niang is a graduate of Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar) and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. He is pursuing a research and artistic creation doctorate within the Radian doctoral program and was a resident at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici in 2022–2023. In 2013, he initiated the creation of the music label Free Label in Tambacounda. The Free Label collective works to promote and develop young creative talent from Tambacounda in all its forms.

Credits :

Texts and Voice: Bocar Niang aka Bocar Freeman
Beat: Khalil Diougue, Adama Diagne, Florian della Gortiglia
Production: Studio *Duuu / La Villette
Sound Recording and Mixing: Mathis Ouidir / *Duuu
Mastering: Paul Castillon / *Duuu
Producers: Loraine Baud and Simon Nicaise / *Duuu
Co-production: The Bureau of Invisible Hours
Drawing: Pierre Grandclaude
Graphic Design: Alice Bourdelon
Radia Show Compilation: Ariel Nisand & Arthur Bécart

Special thanks to my friends and loved ones, my parents and griot family, to the actors of urban cultures in Africa and worldwide, to Constance, nekkalante, and LGMN.

Links : https://duuuradio.fr / *Duuu éditions (duuuradio.fr)

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Each week one member of the Radia Network produces a show for all the others. The Radia Network emerged from a series of meetings, clandestine events, late-night club discussions, and a lot of email exchanges between cultural radio producers across Europe. The topics vary and the reasons for forming a network are many, but Radia has become a concrete manifestation of the desire to use radio as an art form. The approaches differ, as do the local contexts; from commissioned radio art works to struggles for frequencies to copyright concerns, all the radios share the goal of an audio space where something different can happen. That different is also a form in the making––radio sounds different in each city, on each frequency. Taking radio as an art form, claiming that space for creative production in the mediascape and cracking apart the notion of radio, is what Radia does.

It is producing radio stuff that is hard to describe. Some of it can be labeled radio art, or experimental radio, or creative radio. Sometimes it talks, sometimes it doesn’t. It can be noisy, or a kind of soundscape, or a documentary, a document, a talk, a performance. Each and every week, one of the partners will provide the network program, commissioned and produced especially for this purpose: being broadcast by all the partners and made available online.

Some things have to be said about all those partners. They are radio stations, of the independent, non-commercial, community, cultural species. They all speak different languages, and this should create interesting problems. Although initially they were all European radio stations this has changed over time, and Radia has become not only larger but also more diverse: 22 partners in 14 countries and growing all the time.

Radia Stations

* Duuu (Paris, FR)
* ∏node (Mulhouse, Paris, FR)
* Diffusion (Sydney, AU)
* JET FM (Nantes, FR)
* Kanal 103 (Skopje, MK)
* Orange 94.0 (Vienna, AT)
* Radio Campus (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Grenouille (Marseille, FR)
* Radio Helsinki (Graz, AT)
* Radio One 91 FM (Dunedin, NZ)
* Radio Panik (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Papesse (Firenze, IT)
* Radio Student (Ljubljana, SI)
* radio x (Frankfurt/Main, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
* RadioWORM (Rotterdam, NL)
* Reboot.fm (Berlin, DE)
* Resonance FM (London, UK)
* Soundart Radio (Dartington, UK)
* TEA FM (Zaragoza, ES)
* Usmaradio (San Marino, SM)
* Wave Farm WGXC 90.7-FM (New York, USA)

Affiliates

* Kunstradio (Vienna, AT)
* Mobile Radio (Ürzig, DE)
* Radioart106 (Haifa, PS48)

More information at http://radia.fm