Tag: Wally Badarou

Wally Badarou & Dean Blunt Scoring Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’

Experimental music artist and singer/songwriter Dean Blunt has made his feature scoring debut on the upcoming documentary Dahomey. Together with French musician/composer Wally Badarou (Countryman, Boesman and Lena, The Lunatic), he has co-scored the Mati Diop-directed movie, which follows the French/Senegalese filmmaker as she explores the issue of colonization through the story of 26 precious artworks restituted to Benin in late 2021 after being stolen by French colonizers in 1892, when the African country was called the Kingdom of Dahomey.

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