Okay, we've seen a couple of cool things this year, ...

But Baloji's concert at Botanique last Friday topped it all for me. We got to hear some of the greatest rapping, most beautiful-est gospel, real-est blues and most of all: we got to see one of the fiercest MC's in the game (really, bring your boys) transforming a very complex & layered album into a stage performance (live band of course) that brought the house down.

Go see:

28/11 Le Zèbre (Paris, FR) 30/11 Petrol (Anvers) 08/12 N9 (Eeklo) 13/12 Soundstation (Liège) 14/12 Elysée Montmartre (Paris, FR), + Orishas

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pics & illustrations: Sozyone Gonzalez, Nicolas Karakatsanis