Mogoya, his first album since 2009, marks his great return to the song. Oumou talks about what she knows best, namely human relationships (Mogoya can be translated as "human relations today"). Oumou explains the specific problems encountered by African women on a daily basis, the often difficult relations she maintains with the world of men. "When I began my career I had only one idea in mind: to avenge my mother" tells us the one that today in Minata Waraba (Aminata the lioness) makes a shocking tribute to this mother having shown in front of the tests An exemplary courage whose daughter has always been inspired. But after suffering some of the most cruel wounds of childhood - The abandonment of the father, the extreme misery - Oumou must protect himself today from the evils that the notoriety attracts him: jealousy, calumny, inratitude, treason. Mogoya expresses the passing of music, especially on songs such as Bena Bena and Kounkoun where she invites not to sink into resentment. In Yere Faga, she speaks with an impressive frankness about one of the scourges of modern Malian society, suicide. Referring to the many calumnies that have been targeting her in recent years, she gives as an example her willingness never to admit defeated. Because she had to assume responsibilities from a young family abandoned by her leader, she is able to provide advice from older sister. As on Kamelemba where she warns young girls of the trickery of some boys in a part of the world where the phenomenon of early maternity is dramatic. If the name of Oumou Sangar? remains associated with the questioning of ancestral customs, such as polygamy and excision, it can also be, with the songs Mali Niale, Djoukourou and Fadjamou, to the promotion of certain values Traditional. In the first, she exalts the lively forces of her country, Mali, which tries to recover from a multiple crisis. In the second, she exposes the elementary idea that "one always needs one smaller than oneself." Finally, in the third, she praises the merits of belonging, ethnic or dynastic, in a society built on the interdependence between groups and families. In this Mogoya is equivalent to the completion of a conquest, that of a personal balance for this fighter who gives the example after having traced a royal road in spite of the prejudices and obstacles encountered. A balance that is also musical order with the production of this album definitely not like the others ... The project was produced between Stockholm and Paris, with the contribution of the French musicians Albert (Vincent Taurelle, Ludovic Bruni and Vincent Taeger), and the participation of the legendary drummer Tony Allen. From a base recorded by the Swede Andreas Unge, in which the talent of young Malian guitarist Guimba Kouyat? explodes, Albert added his French touch, realizing the perfect interplay between traditional African instruments - kamele n goni, karignan, Percussions ...- and corpus guitar, bass, drums, keyboards. If retro futuristic expression was so overused, we would like to attribute it to this album which speaks to us of an Africa as eternal as contemporary and which constitutes by no doubt one of the finest musical completions Of the career of Oumou.
