Revolt for Change

After his 2021 Top of the World album Diversity, Ebo Krdum has followed up with two albums for the royalty-free music platform Epidemic Sound in 2022: Love & Struggle in May and Revolt for Change in December.

Originally from the Darfur region in western Sudan, Krdum is now based in Sweden. He's worked with many Swedish musicians in the past, but for this album he's mostly on his own, singing and playing guitar, ngoni and fiddle among others, occasionally helped out by a bassist or percussionist. Although he describes his music as Afro-blues and Afrobeat, his sound is very much anchored in West Africa. The way he constructs his songs and shapes his guitar lines shows a clear lineage to the Songhai style of Ali Farka Touré, from whose records Krdum learned guitar as a child. In fact, apart from the languages used – mostly Sudani Arabic, with some Darfuri Masalit and Daju – there are places where this could easily be mistaken for the latest album by a Touré or Traoré from Mali. This album doesn’t have the same scope as Diversity in terms of style, but Krdum gives solid performances throughout, along with impassioned lyrics on war, corruption and hope.