'Dakan' translates as "fate", with which Burkinabé djembefola Adama Dramé suggests he already knew from a very early age, music would be his destiny. In addition, with this album Dramé also seeks to put his fifty year long (!) career in the spotlights (highlighted even more in 'Sanbé Sanbé'). The fact Adama is a proud Burkinabé citizen is illustrated by '11 Décembre', a song about Burkina Faso's independence day, but Dramé is foremost a trueborn musician ('Foliba', celebrating the power of the music, 'Yanoubé', on the griot's mission) and also doesn't lose sight the daily reality in Burkina Faso: in opener 'Balimaya' he urges his countrymen to reconcile, in 'Zouloubou Zalaba' he talks about the popular uprising on October 30th and 31st of 2014, and in 'Djomaya' he declares himself a supporter of the murdered Marxist president Thomas Sankara. If you want to hear Adama's djembe in all its glory, please check 'Nouhoun', a 9 minute solo instrumental in which the master could go completely wild.