The Alagaa Beat Band

{'description': 'Singer and guitarist Serge Massama Dogo, aka Dogo du Togo plays Togolese music and ritual mixing *alagaa* trance music with African pop creating a distinct sound. Dogo draws from a deep well of sounds from across Togo, including *bobobo*, *kamou*, and *kpanlogo* rhythms, melodies, and scales drawn from Vodun religious rituals and others. But the bedrock of his band’s sound is the driving *alagaa* rhythm, a dizzying dance between snare drum and rhythm guitar, modeled on *gankogui