Niamké Désiré releases a jagged third album inspired by a journey to Ghana.
In the image of the rhizomatic thought developed by Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze (later expanded by Édouard Glissant), Niamké Désiré’s music has no center – his previous album was titled Rhizomes (2023).
Since the start of the decade, she has pushed into terrains as varied as prestigious French institutions (Ircam or the Groupe de recherches musicales), Japanese pop culture, US and UK underground (Blackhaine or Clipping), Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label, and jazz (his Ghanaian grandfather played it).
With The Sun Turned Black, her third album, Aho Ssan expands this philosophy to the very material of her music. Born from a trip to Ghana that compelled her to rethink her formal approach to composition (applied to her latest creation at Hyper Weekend Festival 2025 with violinist Asia), the experimental musician charts a bumpy itinerary against an apocalyptic backdrop and a diasporic experience. A collection of tracks freed from constraints, carved from a dark material that heralds the dawn of a new world.
The Sun Turned Black (Subtext/Here and There/L’Autre Distribution). Available since May 22.
