Bonne nouvelle pour les amateurs de musique du monde. L'Espace Prévert de Savigny-le-Temple met en place une promotion spéciale pour le concert du Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, ...

Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo is a difficult ensemble to follow. For one thing, they have functioned under the names Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and L'International ...

It’s been 20 years since Vincent Ahehehinnou and his bandmates in the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou could afford to spend their days playing music. Back then, the band from Benin — formed in the ...

Bonne nouvelle pour les amateurs de musique du monde. L'Espace Prévert de Savigny-le-Temple met en place une promotion spéciale pour le concert du Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, ...

Last September Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou played to a packed house at the Barbican Centre in London. There’s nothing unusual about a sold-out gig, but what was unusual was that this was ...

Le plus ancien orchstre d’Afrique est de passage à Paris. Avec l’Orchestre Poly-Rythmo c’est le retour fracassant des anciens qui débarque dans le plus moderne des musée de Paris, la Fondation Louis ...

Benin is little known for its influence on African popular music. It is better known as the home of vodun, an ancient religion native to West Africa and the root of the syncretic religion voodoo found ...

Better than: Air conditioning in a heat wave. There’s a shopping list of fine pop bands from throughout the African continent listed on one page of drumming major John Miller Chernoff’s esteemed 1979 ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. The musicians in Orchestre ...

Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo is a difficult ensemble to follow. For one thing, they have functioned under the names Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and L'International ...