- artist:Clotilde, Kanazoé, Abdoulaye Traore, Boubacar Djiga, Achille Nacoulma
- featured artist:Clotilde, Kanazoé, Abdoulaye Traore, Boubacar Djiga, Achille Nacoulma
- region:West Africa
- release year:2024
- style(s):Chansons, African Blues
- country:Burkina Faso
- formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc), LP / Vinyl
- record posted by:TZIG'ART
- label:TZIG'ART
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“Take the time to listen to the album because what they've done is fantastic! When I hear this, as a music lover, I feel like I've got something special.”
— Afronight / Télésud Global Africa - Serge Fattoh
“From ballads to trance, from blues to Afro-American influences, the members of Kananayé reflect a united community in a society that promotes individualism. Defending cultural diversity and artistic freedom of expression, they claim their right to move, meet, and create in a world where visa issuance is increasingly hindered. ‘ka nana ye’, ‘it's not easy’, but it will be alright!”
— FIP - Catherine Carette
“Long live Kananayé. It's going to be alright; I'm sure of it!”
— Ocora Couleurs du Monde / France Musique - Françoise Degeorges
“Kananayé, the magnificent album recorded by Clotilde Rullaud and her friends from Burkina Faso. This record will make you sing, dance, and sweep you off your feet. A lot of emotions and camaraderie flow through this generous music. With such a program, you won't be able to resist.”
— Impressions Jazz / Radio Déclic Lorraine - Denis Desassis
“Everyone truly brings their own self; there are no disguises.”
— La Matinale / Radio des Suds - Benjamin Minimum
“It was at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien, the KANANAYE concert featuring singer and flutist Clotilde Rullaud with four incredible Burkinabè musicians: Kanazoe, the wizard of the balafon, Abdoulaye Traore on guitar as a bluesman straddling the suburbs of Africa and the banks of the delta, Boubacar Djiga, master of the groove on the kunde, a type of African bass, and Achille Nacoulma with 10,000 arms and just as many polyrhythms. You'd have to be made of stone not to want to dance. Yes, the groove, as universal as it is, was firmly rooted last night in the suburbs of St Etienne, Burkina Faso. And if, under the pen and magic of Clotilde Rullaud, that groove shuttled between American jazz and the neighborhoods of Belleville, between the griots' blues and Nina Simone's reinterpreted blues, it was at a very high temperature last night, sometimes close to trance. Irresistible.”
— Les Dernières Nouvelles du Jazz - Jean-Marc Gelin