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 ...

‘Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou’. An orchestra, trading in densely layered rhythms, from the Benin costal town of Cotonou. Lacking a little something in the way of pizzazz, non? Call-and-response ...

Madjafalao is the new album from Benin’s Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou, a group which spans afrobeat and funk, mostly based around the tradition of Vodun rhythms. Its release next month will mark ...

2016 Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou’s Madjafalao has warmth and joy in spades (Albums) 08.11.2016 / 11:30 2015 We went to Le Guess Who? and didn’t see a single bad band (Festivals) 08.12.2015 / ...

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou are one of West Africa’s oldest and most successful bands, masters of Vôdun-inspired afrobeat. Singer and co-founder Vincent Ahehehinnou talks to RFI about their new ...

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 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 ...

While Strut continue to revive the career of these forgotten West African heavyweights with a killer new studio LP, Samy Ben Redjeb’s great archive label take us back to 1973 for Orchestre Poly-Rythmo ...

From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the Benin big band were indeed all-powerful. Then, like so many of the post-Independence orchestras, they fell out of fashion for many years. They reunited in ...