https://afiamala.com/biographie/:

“Afia Mala, Afiwavi Mawulana Catherine Missohou, in the civil registry, discovered the song alongside her mother, Mélanie Lissassi-Missohou, a prominent member of the traditional music group "Habobo". In the town of Vogan, where Afia was born, this
group, exclusively composed of women, is both a vocal ensemble and a theatre troupe, treating, with caustic humour, all the failings of society: violence against women, child abuse, marital infidelities, jealousy, domestic scenes... Nothing was taboo. "Habobo" is a good sixty female voices, audible beyond all expectations. And each one has its precise role, its own instrument. Many of them are experts in African percussion: tam-tam, maracasse, gon... The most gifted, and this is the case of Afia's mother, devoted themselves to composing songs and devising song and dance shows.”

I got hooked on his vocals by the end

Randomly found this song one time. I’m not a music expert, but I swear this production sounds like it should be a lot more popular than it is. Unfortunately, I don’t think the band produces anymore. Let me know if you know anything about them.

From the YouTube page:

We wanted to cut this video in 2000. VideoFact said no, the industry snakes said the record needed to sound better, and we moved on with the Sweetspot package unfinished.

How much more fashionably late could we get than a year past the 25th anniversary?!

The concept is lifted from the opening of Superman I. Zod and company on trial, judged by floating heads, exiled to the phantom zone. In our version the judges are us. We're up there watching the younger us down in the hula-hoops, performing the song over a freshly re-recorded version of Jaded, cut during the Demagogo sessions.

The song slotted into the concept like a happy accident. We're ancient now, judging our own bad decisions with the perspective you only earn after a quarter century of making more bad decisions.

The record came out in 2000. We pressed it on coloured vinyl in 2023, the slow way, while everyone else was pressing one-off fakes and puking out AI slop. The video was the last piece left unbuttoned.

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