Bick Bassy Plans Spring North American Tour Supporting LP ‘Madíbá’

In support of his critically acclaimed album Madíbá (May ’23), Blick Bassy returns this April & May to North America for an extensive spring tour of the United States and Canada. The new performance artistically reinterprets the various tracks from Madíbá, which saw Blick experiment with electronic production to support his iconic voice and composition style for the first time.

In his own words, Blick comments on the upcoming tour:

“I love playing in the US, a country where artistic appreciation is deeply rooted. I enjoy strolling along the vast roads that connect cities and provide a unique opportunity to admire the magnificent landscape of this country.”

Musically, Madíbá takes Blick in a new direction, spurred by a love of James Blake and Bon Iver to relocate his voice in electronic textures with more spare instrumentation. The album (recorded between Paris, Biarritz, and Quimper and produced/composed with Romain Jovion) lets Bassy’s voice dominate, carried by delicate guitar, synthesizer, bassoon, and brass. The cuts are diaphanous and nevertheless modernist and testify to a contemporary and poetic Africanity at the crossroads of soul, folk, and electro.

Blick Bassy North American Tour Dates:

Thursday, April 4: Portsmouth, NH @ Press Room
Friday, April 5: Troy, NY @ No Fun
Saturday, April 6: New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
Sunday, April 7: Montreal, QC @ Le Ministère
Wednesday, April 10: Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records
Friday, April 12: Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
Saturday, April 13: Minneapolis, MN @ The Cedar
Tuesday, May 7: Seattle, WA @ The Sunset – TICKETS
Thursday, May 9: Boise, ID @ Neurolux – TICKETS
Friday, May 10: Portland, OR @ Jack London Revue
Saturday, May 11: Vancouver, BC @ The Fox Cabaret
Wednesday, May 15: San Francisco, CA @ The Battery
Thursday, May 16: Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Diggers
Sunday, May 19: Denver, CO @ Skylark
Monday, May 20: Fort Collins, CO @ Lyric
Wednesday, May 22: Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
Saturday, May 25: Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records

Bick Bassy 2024 tour poster