It’s been 20 years since Vincent Ahehehinnou and his bandmates in the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou could afford to spend their days playing music. Back then, the band from Benin — formed in the ...

Better than: Air conditioning in a heat wave. There’s a shopping list of fine pop bands from throughout the African continent listed on one page of drumming major John Miller Chernoff’s esteemed 1979 ...

The power of Orchestre Poly-Rythmo is instantly recognizable in "Pardon," a strong and wise song about the importance of forgiveness. (Courtesy of the artist) ...

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 ...

Benin’s most masterful band follows the March release of their first album in more than 20 years, Cotonou Club, with a reworked, remastered update of their virtually unheard first album. Recorded in ...