Mbife is the first single in a new wave of dance music to be released by Jally this year.
Mbife means ‘I love you/I like you’ and is his first Afropop track.
“My inspiration here is love, trust and sincerity. Everyone has their own love scenarios and this [song] is not only my story or about me who has fallen in love. I open the subject very wide. I consider love and then take that energy beyond its normal boxed-in romantic ideas. I start by wanting to take it to the club.”
Mbife is a noticeable upbeat change in Jally’s style; shifting from the jazz and funk formations that we’ve grown to expect from his albums Banjul-London (2017) and Malaye Warr (2012). Anyone following Jally’s career will know that this metamorphosis comes as no surprise however as he has been working in the electronic scene for nearly six years straight with his other project Afriquoi:
“This [experience] gave me different inspirations. Of hearing another progressive ways of bringing the roots of Afro Manding to the clubs.”