LES AMAZONES D’AFRIQUE + GASPER NALI BAND – UK – Oct 2026
AFRICAN SOUL REBELS TOUR
Gasper Nali Band joins the amazing Les Amazones d’Afrique on a major concert hall tour in the UK
When the ticket links come live, they will appear below
02 Oct BRIGHTON Dome 03 Oct POOLE Lighthouse 04 Oct BRISTOL Beacon
06 Oct COVENTRY Warwick Arts 07 Oct BASINGSTOKE Anvil 08 Oct BIRMINGHAMTown Hall 09 Oct GATESHEAD The Glasshouse 10 Oct LIVERPOOL Philharmonic 11 Oct EDINBURGH Usher Hall
13 Oct MANCHESTER Bridgewater Hall 15 Oct NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall
Gasper Nali has just released his 3rd album CHULE CHULE IWE (translates roughly to Hey you, Frog!)
Breezy, beat-driven and entirely unique – Far Out Magazine
Playful and joyful throughout– Songlines Magazine
It’s been 6 long years since Gasper Nali released his sophomore album Zoona Malawi (It’s true, Malawi), a no frills record where everything was recorded right on the beach of Lake Malawi, no cuts or edits. The new album ‘Chule Chule Iwe’ (Hey You, Frog!) is again a more studio oriented record featuring himself, as always; singing, playing his 3-metre one-stringed home-made babatoni bass guitar, and stomping away those impossibly danceable rhythms on a cow skin kick drum with his locally welded monster of a foot pedal.
Beside Gasper is fellow Malawian artist and song writer Luhangah, backing him up with tasty percussion and the occasional vocal chant.
Finishing up the trio is Swedish producer, musician, and long-time collaborator Mattias Stålnacke, playing the guitars, some keys and studio wizardry.
The long gap between albums must be said to be more a victim of circumstance rather than lack of musical output! Initially, Covid-19 made international travel (and collaboration) difficult and in the following years the album had to take shape slowly. Gasper’s touring schedule started to pick up, and it was in the little pockets of tour off-days that songs could be recorded, a few here and a few there. So, the recordings in this album spans the first post-Covid tour in 2022 up to the most recent one last year, with everything often set up on the fly in different locations in the UK and the Netherlands. Of course, some of the songs were written even earlier than that.
The title track Chule Chule Iwe translates roughly to You Frog, You! and is Gasper’s humorous take on a Malawian nursery rhyme. In general, the lyrical theme of this album has a lighter tone compared to earlier work which leaned more into societal commentary. On Chule Chule Iwe we get a more personal Gasper Nali with translated titles such as A Journey, Relaxation, and I’m Grateful.
The album is accompanied by a music video for the title track. Enjoy!
Listen to the album on all standard streaming services (Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music etc) or even better; buy a download, a physical CD or some great Gasper Nali merch in our BANDCAMP shop. That way more of your cash will go to the artist!
Gasper Nali is returning to the UK for a tour in May/June 2025, and this time he’s bringing a band!!
He is a not-so-traditional babatoni player from the small town of Nkhata Bay on the shores of Lake Malawi. The babatoni is an African one-string home-made 3-metre long bass guitar, and with a stick and an empty beer bottle, together with a cow skin kick drum and catchy melodies, he creates the most amazing and danceable original Afro Beats possible!
From Nkhata-Bay to the UK: GASPER NALI is getting ready for a jam-packed autumn tour. 21 shows in 29 days all over the UK! Malawi’s own One-Man-Band Afrobeat Explosion with his 3-metre home-made Babatoni bass guitar, cow skin kick drum and the most beautiful and catchy and danceable tunes possible!
We’re super excited to announce that Gasper Nali (MW) and Michael Mountain (MW) will do a joint autumn 2023 tour in the UK. So far 21 shows are booked in late September and October and more is on the way. Check dates and links to tickets below!
Gasper Nali is a roots one-man-band from the small town of Nkhata Bay on the shores of Lake Malawi. He plays a one-string home-made 3-metre long Babatoni bass guitar with a stick and an empty beer bottle, and together with a cow skin kick drum and catchy melodies, he creates the most amazing and danceable original Afro Beats possible!
Michael Mountain is a reggae poet and small-scale farmer. The front porch of his small house in the remote village of Viboko is his favourite place, and from there he can clearly see life from a different point of view, and put his reflections into song.
The instrument Gasper is playing is called Babatoni. It’s a home-made bass guitar, about 3 metres long – made from a sawed-off oil barrel covered with cow skin, a hand axed piece of blue gum Eucalyptus tree and one single string made from the wire inside the rims of car tyres. Hear Gasper explain a bit more:
