Bokanté - Nou Tout Sé Yonn

Bokanté - Nou Tout Sé Yonn
From the album "Strange Circles," out now on GroundUP Music.
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Recorded and filmed at Dreamland Studios in West Hurley, New York, in April of 2016.
Written by Michael League & Malika Tirolien.
Music arranged by Michael League.
Vocals arranged and lyrics written by Malika Tirolien.
Produced by Michael League.
Personnel:
Malika Tirolien - vocals & vocal percussion
Roosevelt Collier - lap steel guitar
Michael League - baritone guitar, bass & vocal percussion
Chris McQueen - baritone guitar
Bob Lanzetti - electric guitar
Jamey Haddad - percussion
André Ferrari - percussion
Keita Ogawa - percussion
Engineered and mixed by Nic Hard.
Assisted by Bella Blasko.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk NYC.
Filmed by Andy LaViolette, Simon C.F. Yu, Yusuke Suzuki, and Michael League.
Facebook - @Bokanté / BokanteMusic
Instagram - @BokanteMusic
Twitter - @BokanteMusic
www.bokante.com
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LYRICS:
(Creole)
Koutésa x 2
Kouté sa
Siw koupé rasin a piébwa, pié bwa pé ké ripousé
Koutésa
Si ou woté dlo a lanmè la, dézèw ké vin touvéw
Kouté sa
Siw konstrui kaz aw san mason, kaz la pé ké pé diré
Kouté sa
Si ou pa jen planté grèn mango la, pié mango ké disparet
Kouté sa
Siw ka jijé moun ki douvanw, moun dèyèw ké jijéw
Kouté sa
Siw volé voisin aw, on jou on moun ké vin voléw
Kouté sa
Fo ou sonjé sa ou ka simé sé sa ou kay rékolté
Kouté sa
Fo ou sonjé si ou jiré karma, karma ké vin ritouvéw
Sonjé nou tout sé yonn x2
A pa lè ou vwè la riviè kolè
Ou ké vwè rèflè aw, lè ou gadé adan’y
Si ou pa vlé avoué nou tout sé yonn
Nou pé ké pé rivé viv ansanm
(English)
if you cut the roots of the tree
it will never grow again
if you strip the sea of its water
the desert will find you
if you build your house with no foundation
it will not stand for long
if you fail to plant the seed
there will be no mango trees
if you judge the one in front
you will face judgement from the one behind
if you steal from your neighbor
one will steal from you
remember that you get what you give
and that when taunted
karma will find you
remember we are one
a reflection is hard to see
in troubled waters
if you don’t accept that we are one
we will never live in peace

[@donguiddodilozzo1906]

This is so GOOD !!! 😀😀😀!

[@GeuTO2]

It is incredible the work of sound engineering, congratulations to the team responsible for this part!!!

[@AndyLaViolette]

His name is Nic Hard. :)

[@GeuTO2]

Wow men thanks, Nic Hard is a master ... tremendous quality, a lot of sonic sensitivity.

[@vachel45]

Wow, that's great!

[@DavidChachere]

Lots of talented artists working together for the song. No divas, no egos, no grandstanding, no bulls**t.

[@linolakota8447]

Woulo bravo Bokanté! Malika ka dégajé! Si'y bon, di'y bon! I bon toubonnman! An ka tann son a ka la palé kréyol! Difé!

[@samcooke343]

Beautiful as always too, Andy! One day I'll stop saying this on every video, but not yet.

[@AndyLaViolette]

Cheers, Sam!

[@DohitsNet]

O Top !!

[@paulbeephan484]

Oh mannn i love this!

[@LusoVIDEOcam]

INCREDIBLE VIBE... AFRICA!!!

[@ss-aalltt]

the production makes this so vibrant and alive. amazing

[@OdhranDevlinMusic]

Brilliant, hope this album gets a vinyl release!!

[@michaelleague3810]

Yep! Out in June.

[@samcooke343]

Mike! One day I'll get to shake your hand sir.

[@OdhranDevlinMusic]

Pre ordered that mother!! Next order of business is to take bokante to New Zealand!!

[@akshaypatil3462]

The sounds are so refreshing, Jaw dropping arrangement!

[@bonnaireaxel5041]

yeaah from Guadeloupe musique du pays ça fait plaisir beautiful sonjé nou tout sé yonn

[@68caribou]

:: The best way for music to survive is to travel!!! Thank you Malika for sharing your musical roots with good musicians all around the world. Cheers from Montreal ::

[@fierybones]

so much fun!

[@GustavoPolo]

The videography on this video is on point! Oh and the music too :p

[@AndyLaViolette]

Thanks!

[@mr_wessumz]

I want every single thing in those percussionist's set ups.

[@samcooke343]

Incredible.

[@keeeeeeems]

The baritone guitar sounds sweet.

[@Bix12]

Love this! George Duke is smilin'.... ;)

[@pattyluss]

Beautiful! glad to see the baritone guitar in action, so cool!

[@MladenDragovicMusic]

Awesome as always! ❤️❤️❤️ But this one is funny. I can listen to the whole zong starting on two different eight notes and neither of these "versions" sound completely logical. 😂

[@stoffer717]

❤❤ love that African groove on the bass and guitar

[@creekme6632]

waaah as always... awesome

[@linolakota8447]

Merci Bokanté, merci Malika TIROLIEN!

[@hugeworld]

Wow, this is wonderful. Chills up the spine stuff. And the words are beautiful too - it sounds like some sort of spiritual teaching (with the groove turned up to 11). Michael League, Bokante, this whole team and all the Ground Up material is beautiful. I hope you get lots of sales and gigs etc. Well done everyone, amazing. I hope Bokante comes to Australia. Hugh

[@ThonhaN75]

Niice Music Video =D Congrats, i Love Music and I Love To Play Percussion!!!.

[@AmagrasMUSIC]

Perfect!

[@karlkirkpatrick6724]

Love it!

[@dandacgds6157]

Que voz maravilhosa essa mulher tem! grupo incrível!

[@soocool78]

yes!

[@augustolautarogarbuio789]

los mejores de los mejores en todo

[@kallolbanerjee]

Too much fun ... :)

[@Re1nate]

love it!!!

[@bryansam5987]

Tingles my auditory sense cloud nine !

[@lagrancarachaIndieRock]

Just sublime

[@rtrowbridgedixon]

LaViolette: NICE JOB!

[@AndyLaViolette]

Thanks, Robert! This was fun.

[@lilianka777]

Great song...love it

[@jonburfitt5402]

See y'all at WOMAD. This is great!

[@paweljazzijazz1183]

African magic.

[@jackpaice]

heck yeah

[@Bigdrum2]

Ahhhh...wonderful.

[@lpnegrini]

Wow.....

[@admstransmisjelive4104]

Znakomite! :-)

[@Lostenso]

eh hey eh eh eh eh heyyyyaaaa

[@henkdevries2002]

nicee

[@unclebaobabmusic]

3:20 plays that shit like a clav!!!

[@reimundserramock5169]

Wow :-)

[@drewb5775]

0:56 - 1:11 holy shit

[@godot973]

STRE PI TO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@anoncodplayer2270]

You guys get a new video editor? Seems like a new style of editing.

[@michaelleague3810]

Nope! Andy as usual.

[@AndyLaViolette]

Each day is a gift!

[@ChrisHyp]

🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

[@izzycheeks8871]

Gosh, I looove Bokanté 💕 the percussions, production quality, cinematography... everything on point. *Now if only the non brown people in the band would get lost 🤔 and Africans moved in to play our African flavor for real and it’d be even better 😫😫 ❤️ I mean there’s low key appropriation here. Ughk! This is African music in every way- there’s no place for colonizers. But here we are.* ...and cue the bitter replies for the ever so entitled Caucasian cry babies 🍿 🍿

[@austinsmith2796]

Does anyone know what strings were on that Hofner?

[@michaelleague3810]

Tapewounds!

[@radiofabrik]

Hörenswert: Bokanté - „Strange Circles“ radiofabrik.at/news/hoerenswert-bokante-strange-circles/

[@omocaigomocaig]

What does “kouté sa” mean?

[@linolakota8447]

In englihs it means "listen to that"; in french"Ecoute ça"; in créole"kouté sa"!

[@omocaigomocaig]

Thanks a lot for the explaination.

[@bastianbiele113]

Ich versteh zwar nix ...aber ich krieg nich genug ψ(｀∇´)ψ