La playlist soundsystem de Djubaka
Samedi 21 mars 2026
BPM – Bonnes Pulsations du Monde
Slovénie : le renouveau des musiques folk entre Europe centrale et Balkans
Publié le : 27/02/2026 - 16:10
Cette semaine, BPM vous emmène à Ljubljana, au cœur du MENT Festival, là où les traditions se réinventent et où les scènes indépendantes dialoguent au-delà des frontières. Avec aussi : une énergie hybride venue d’Afrique du Sud, de l'électro solidaire de l’Ukraine, le tsapiky incandescent du Sud-Ouest malgache et, dans « l’Histoire d’un live », une légende brésilienne, Antonio Carlos Jobim, qui fait tomber une pluie tropicale sur Montréal.
5/ BOBO & BEHAJA - "Kabosy", extrait de Aia Haja? (Maison Tempête - 2026)
Musiques d’Afrique : février 2026 en cinq albums
Journaliste print & web
2 mars 2026
Un mois placé sous le signe de Madagascar, avec deux sorties de « tsapiky ». Mais aussi des incursions du côté du Sénégal, de l’Algérie et du Maroc.
« Aia Haja ? », de Bobo & Behaja
Retour à Madagascar, toujours sur un air de tsapiky, avec un album qui a bien failli ne pas voir le jour.
Le groupe Bobo & Behaja a en effet dû entrer en studio sans l’équipement nécessaire : haut-parleurs à pavillon, amplificateurs de karaoké et pédales d'effets artisanales s’étaient égarés lors d’une correspondance aéroportuaire à Zurich. Le précieux matériel est finalement arrivé à Paris avec une semaine de retard, contraignant les musiciens à enregistrer les sept morceaux en seulement deux jours.
Le quintette s’articule autour de ses deux leaders éponymes : le Fançais Maxime Bobo, saxophoniste au sein des groupes Electric Vocuhila et Mitsaitsaiky, et le Malgache Behaja, prodige de la guitare électrique originaire de Sakaraha, dans le sud-ouest de l’île. Avec leur disque Aia Haja ?, ils contribuent à renouveler un genre en perpétuelle mutation, certes, mais jusqu’alors peu coutumier des cuivres. De cette alliance singulière entre cordes et pistons naît une énergie inédite, flirtant avec le rock et le free jazz.
7 titres, 49 mn / Maison Tempête / 20 février
New & Notable
Aia Haja?
by Bobo & Behaja
Terrific and gripping jazz with touches of Afrobeat in its leaping rhythms makes for a joyous ride.
Un quintet franco-malgache, au carrefour des couleurs orientales et occidentales, c’est Bobo et Behaja. Un voyage où les surprises s’invitent sans se faire attendre… Des sonorités délirantes, aux rythmes trépidants, la musique nous emporte dans un tourbillon mélodieux, un mouvement indomptable.
5 songs you need to hear this week
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Bobo & Behaja: “parepare”
“parepare” goes all over the place and I’ve followed each thread to its end. This is the lead track on Bobo & Behaja’s new tape Aia Haja?, invented someplace between Budapest and Zurich and recorded using horn loudspeakers, karaoke amplifiers, and homemade pedals that “reproduce the sonorities of the bal-poussière ceremonies of southwest Madagascar.” Bobo & Behaja blend free jazz, garage rock, and tsapiky together, corking feral guitar lines with saxophone honks that strobe then spiral. On the topline, Ekaly’s vocal unspools like an instrument governed by its own chaos, while François Rosenfeld and Gérard Rakotoniaina’s half-staccato, half-anarchic rhythm section brightens the tune from below. These are Malagasy virtuosos bouncing off each other’s impulses. I’ve never heard anything like it. —Matt Mitchell
Albums Of The Week: Bobo & Behaja | Aia Haja?
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2026-02-19
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Isolated from the rest of the group at the front of the plane taking us from Budapest to Zurich, Behaja left without waiting for us, confidently following a group of travellers who had gone to catch their connecting flight,” recalls one of the Franco-Malagasy guitarist’s bandmates — a list that includes vocalist Ekaly, also saxophonist Maxime Bobo, bassist François Rosenfeld and drummer Gérard Rakotoniaina. “Lost in switzerland’s largest airport, he had no phone and he speaks neither French, English nor German.
“After an hour and a half of searching and several public announcements to the thousands of travellers, the airport police, initially uncooperative, finally found him at the end of a corridor. Finally reunited, we managed to catch the transfer to Paris at the last minute, but some of the suitcases — checked in hastily — were loaded into the hold of a different plane.
“A few days later, we set off to record our first album, deprived of much of our equipment — horn loudspeakers, karaoke amplifiers and homemade effects pedals that reproduce the sonorities of the ‘bal-poussière’ ceremonies of south-western Madagascar — which the airline sent us after a week’s wait. So it was only during the last two days in the studio that the conditions were right for recording the tracks for this album.
“The repertoire, largely created in Madagascar and then performed on stage during a European tour of some 30 concerts, is based on the new rhythms, structures, instrumental and vocal techniques of contemporary tsapiky, of which Behaja is one of the most emblematic musicians.”
#SessionLive La Cafetera Roja (Italie/Fr) + playlist Sophian Fanen
Publié le : 21/02/2026 - 07:00
Du rock politique groenlandais des années 70 aux cafetières rouges fatto in italia, tout est en libre service !
Tous les mois, le critique musical Sophian Fanen, du site Les Jours, sélectionne 5 titres. Pour février, les élus sont :
- Nilza Costa, Oxum, tiré de l'album Cantigas (Brutture Moderne, 2026)
- Momoko Gill, No Others, tiré de l'album Momoko (Strut Records, 2026)
- Danyl, Ya Habiba, tiré de l'album Zmig (Structure, 2026)
- Bobo & Behaja, Parepare, tiré de l'album Aia Haja? (Carton Records, 2026)
- Sumé, Piffiit Nutaat, tiré de l'album Sumut (ULO, 1973).
Next Week in Music | February 16-22 • The Short List: 21 Titles You Want to Hear (Part 1)
By Darryl Sterdan - 2026-02-15
It has been one of those days when nothing works right. Not my fingers; not my brain; not my laptop; not the Internet. So screw it; I give up. But somehow, despite all the roadblocks and setbacks and dumbassery, I have still managed to put together this list of worthwhile music. Here are your plays of the week:
Bobo & Behaja
Aia Haja?
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Isolated from the rest of the group at the front of the plane taking us from Budapest to Zurich, Behaja left without waiting for us, confidently following a group of travellers who had gone to catch their connecting flight. Lost in Switzerland’s largest airport, he had no phone and he speaks neither French, English nor German. After an hour and a half of searching and several public announcements to the thousands of travellers, the airport police, initially uncooperative, finally found him at the end of a corridor. Finally reunited, We managed to catch the transfer to paris at the last minute, but some of the suitcases — checked in hastily — were loaded into the hold of a different plane. A few days later, we set off to record our first album, deprived of much of our equipment — horn loudspeakers, karaoke amplifiers and homemade effects pedals that reproduce the sonorities of the “bal-poussière” ceremonies of south-western madagascar — which the airline sent us after a week’s wait. So it was only during the last two days in the studio that the conditions were right for recording the tracks for this album. The repertoire, largely created in Madagascar and then performed on stage during a European tour of some 30 concerts, is based on the new rhythms, structures, instrumental and vocal techniques of contemporary tsapiky, of which behaja is one of the most emblematic musicians.”
Depuis le 19 septembre 2006, la Centrifugeuse est une émission musicale diffusée 1 mardi sur 2 de 20h à 21h30. Retrouvez là sur les ondes de la radio Canal Sud 92.2 FM (Toulouse et ses environs) ou sur le site internet de Canal Sud. L’émission propose un grand mélange en défendant toutes les musiques indépendantes, de la musique contemporaine au noise rock, en passant par la folk, la pop, le jazz, la soul… Avec son envie de décloisonner les genres musicaux et montrer les liens qui existent entre eux. Il y a assez de cloisons sociales, pourquoi créer des frontières musicales ?
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December 23, 2025
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December, 17, 2022 10:00 PM–12:00 AM
Bobo & Behaja | Rafoza Manday Tandra | Aia Haja? | 2026 | Carton
chronicles of womex 2025
As has long been the case, the Mundofonías team attended the annual meeting of WOMEX, one of the largest events related to root musics on the planet that is held each year in a different city. In 2025 it took place in Tampere, Finland, and from there we bring impressions of some memorable concerts which we recall and which make us travel through Mali, Tanzania, Madagascar, Serbia, Taiwan and Mauritania among other destinations. We also share the conversations we had with Maxime Bobo, co-promoter of the Franco-Malagasy project Bobo & Behaja, and with the Taiwanese musicians of 3Peoplemusic. We listen to the winner of the Artist Award, the Mauritanian Noura Mint Seymali, and we also comment on the refusal of the Professional Excellence Award by the creators of the Syrian Cassettes Archives, listening to some of the music recovered and compiled in this initiative.
– Kankou Kouyate – Nganou balla – N’Darila
– The Zawose – Kusekala kwanyungu (live) – [sin álbum especificado]
– Bobo & Behaja – Karioke menamaso – Aia haja?
– Gordan – Šara – Gordan
– 3Peoplemusic – LaSoRe – Him, her, it, and three
– Noura Mint Seymali – Tassirit – Yenbett
– Syrian Cassette Archives – Side B [frag.] – SCA mixtape vol.1
Voces invitadas:
Guest voices:
– Maxime Bobo (Bobo & Behaja)
– 3Peoplemusic
🎶🇲🇬 Bobo & Behaja est un groupe franco-malgache né de la rencontre entre le saxophoniste Maxime Bobo et le guitariste Behaja, figure du tsapiky de Madagascar. Leur musique fusionne les rythmes festifs et hypnotiques des «bals-poussière» malgaches avec le souffle du jazz et des sonorités rock contemporaines. Ensemble, ils créent une expérience à la fois enracinée dans la tradition et résolument moderne, portée par une énergie de transe et d’improvisation.