Kankou channels the quiet resilience of Burkina Faso into every set, carrying with him the gold-dusted glow of the savanna, the vibrant hum of Ouagadougou’s markets, and the faint perfume of shea carried on the wind after rain. Within his Afrohouse and Afrotech, the balafon’s wooden timbre murmurs beneath surging basslines, ancestral drums converse with synths that shimmer like heat rising from the earth. From his base in Milan, he braids these textures into great migrations of spirit.
