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Folly Teko

war against loudness war :)

About Me

First of all, I won' t start with; '' I am playing something since I was 5 or 12 and my music finds its roots in the family''. Why? Because I haven't discovered music that way. I had,however, arrangements and airs in my head. I then used my voice to materialise those airs; a thing, you know, that is childish and funny. Even with instruments in my music nowadays, that vocal-as-total-track aspect remains. The ''infante'' soul is still singing. I hope you will hear that child within me. Music is in everybody anyway. I was half of NUTIFAFA . I come from Togo , a west african country and I m studying audiovisual art at the Rietveld Academie based in Amsterdam.
I sing mainly in ''Mina'' which is a togolese creole language(Ewe roots with influences of western languages).
. I am playing guitar 2 years almost now. So I am far from being the next J.Hendrix. But to me it doesn' t matter. I like to try things,to fall down and stand up; and fall again and one day I will definitely stand up...ooo the bass guitar also sounds good.


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Member Since: 9/26/2006
Band Website: follyteko.com
Band Members: Folly Teko.Click here to BE THE FIRST TO BUY THE FIRST TRACKS
Influences:Nutifafa , WHY DO YOU WANNA KNOW BY THE WAY? TO BETTER PUT ME IN A BOX? First of all my african origins,CHEIKH ANTA DIOP ONE OF THE BIGGEST EVER,history, middle age (a period when people thought they were humans althought they were big lions against each other) traditional rythms(ewe, kabye, kotokoli, akposso, losso...) of there, Don williams, Eric Donaldson, Cee-lo green, Guillermo Arriaga, Sting, Nick Drake of course, Neil young, .... languages, cartoons (cat&dog, tom and jerry...) kierkegaard, Madiou, Camus, the figure Jean Valjean in ''les miserables'' of Victor Hugo, Nietszche,, Rousseau and his enemies, voltaire, Appiah, Lacan inevitably, Foucault, sloterdijk, people with pain in their heart, our general hypocrisy, the cynism of some of us, and maybe you? ....
Sounds Like: frame it yourself!

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Record Label: do you know one for me? :)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

weird whole world 4

I have dread locks people say I am rasta. I laugh, they say I am foolish or arrogant, I cry they say I am weak. I try to be creative they say they want something new...I mean, what the hell is going o...
Posted by Folly Teko on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:52:00 PST

Weir whole world 3

Nothing seems obvious. We talk, someone hears what we say and react on it(by silent or answer). We do things to provoke something else. Whether we're looking at a painting or watching a film, our perc...
Posted by Folly Teko on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:20:00 PST

Weird whole world 2

Could someone explain me, please, why African root masks might be ''satanic'' for African people themselves but really good for the museums in the west?
Posted by Folly Teko on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:32:00 PST

Weird Whole world 1

In my country(Togo) folks flow in great number to the big city, lome. They then all speak Mina, the language in most of my songs. People losing their own identity because of money. Does this make sens...
Posted by Folly Teko on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:11:00 PST

GENDER AND FASHION

Gender, sexuality and clothesIn front my mirror I was looking at myself when suddenly a question popped out. From the mirror; 'what is fashion?'. The question itself is fruit of the unsatisfaction of ...
Posted by Folly Teko on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:57:00 PST

kidnapping?

Dear readers,It's easy to complain about some matters when talking AFRICA. Because it's known that africans complain too much. But let's face a fact. ''Arche de zoe'' is one of the last hot topics con...
Posted by Folly Teko on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:16:00 PST

A WEIRD THING

Note: the perspective of this discussion is personal/individual. Not from the national, structural, group point of view. LIBERALISM!!! ''our political entity is liberal'' I hear well dressed people c...
Posted by Folly Teko on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:39:00 PST

GODSON (lyrics)

GODSONOh crazy, I tried to be that one that son of godum! silly the way I jump and runto spare the rodmoney has made me buy the sunwasn't that a fraud?really, I want someone to judge meI don' t feel g...
Posted by Folly Teko on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:04:00 PST

KLING KLING KLING

last week, I was reading an article on internet that looked exactly like something I read many times before: ''If you know that you are the boss of your own life then you won't blame something/someone...
Posted by Folly Teko on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:24:00 PST

ESSI; water affairs

This is the translation of the song Essi.The country where I live is Holland.People here are masters of water.They constantly push water, gaining landsit's quite smart.But water they push is not hidde...
Posted by Folly Teko on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:05:00 PST