Antoinette Konan — M'ackô [Ivory Coast / Côte d'Ivoire]

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Antoinette Konan, The Queen of the Ahoko. It makes sense that Antoinette Konan’s eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast’s Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring electrified backdrop of synth, bass guitar and drum machines. Released in 1986, the album is a veritable UFO of instrumental force and contemporary pop sensibility landing in a boiling pot of diverse, creative characters inhabiting Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire).
Known as the “Queen of the Ahoko” among Ivorians, Konan single-handedly put the central-Ivorian instrument on the map when she gave it a 20th-century re-introduction. The three-piece wooden idiophone is handmade from a thin, ribbed, flexible stick, against which a smaller chunk of wood is rhythmically scraped. A hollow nutshell held in the non-scraping hand amplifies and manipulates the resulting overtones. Despite the ahoko's diminutive appearance, Konan and her powerful voice have remained at the forefront of Ivorian music for decades now, in an extremely diverse country—approximately 70 indigenous languages—with a competitive, internationally-recognized music industry.

M′ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
M'ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
Aochô kepa maw chéchaé (ackô kolémié)
Mia santré mia cho bona (ackô kolémié)
Yé he he, m′ackô-ô-ô
M'ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
M'ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
Aoho santrá n′ya chébaé (ackô kolémié)
Mia santré n′ya chébraé (ackô kolémié)
Yé he he, m'ackô-ô-ô
M′ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
M'ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
Aochô kepa maw chéchaé (ackô kolémié)
Mia santré mia cho bona (ackô kolémié)
Yé he he, m′ackô-ô-ô
M'ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
M′ackô kolémié (ackô kolémié)
Mia santrá n'ya chébraé (ackô kolémié)
Áoho santré mia cho bona (ackô kolémié)
Yé he he, m'ackô-ô-ô

Mwa traé níéma tra ohrá tié
Áho mwa traé níéma tra ohrá tié
Akona níéma ako mi té
Akwaé níéma ako mi té
Môamé crossu mémouwa ményaô
Mali bonu lingia Assinie
Asé kuwaa kiami kwasa mié tômié
Tié moôna soma-soma
Mama n′yagé ha traaw bresóu
Ooh mama hé níéma ha traaw bresóu
Môamé crossu mémouwa ményaô
Mali bonu lingia Assinie
Asé kuwaa kiami kiaaka akuôko mié
Mô name moôna soma-soma
N gbambía hé hé soma-soma
Ahoumisi hé níéma consion
Môamé crossu mémouwa ményaô
Mali bonu lingia Assinie
Asé kuwaa kiami kiaaka akuôko miaa
Si mi n′gya ha soma-soma
Na na mwa ha traw bresóu
Ahoumisi hé ha traw bresóu
Môamé crossu mémouwa ményaô
Mali bonu lingia Assinie
Asé kuwaa kiami kiaaka akuôko misé
Mô name moôna soma-soma
N gbambía hé hé soma-soma
Ahoumisi hé níéma consion