Africa Is a Country

Music Break. Rocket Juice and the Moon

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Music Break. Rocket Juice and the Moon

By
Sean Jacobs

Via OkayAfrica

… Another tune off the Tony Allen—Damon Albarn—Flea conglomerate project Rocket Juice & The Moon. “Follow-Fashion” plays like a horn-flanked afrobeat progression, featuring heavy slap bass from Flea, Damon on the vertical piano, sensuous croons from Mali’s Fatoumata Diawara and verses from Accra MC M.anifest. The performance was recorded at La Fiesta des Suds in Marseille, France last October. Watch it above and look out for the Rocket Juice & The Moon LP out 3/26 on Honest Jon’s.

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