Atna Njock, aka Zekuhl, has an atypical journey. Grandson of a traditional chef, he is an innate bearer and guarantor of the tradition of the language of tones.

 

He was born in Quebec and grew up in Cameroon in Central Africa. He was initiated and bathed in the musical traditions of several African and Cameroonian ethnic groups, including that of his Bàsàa tribe and those of the Baka Pygmies near his village Kaya. Subsequently, he enriched himself with the Western tonal system and by the development of musical notions of jazz, pop, classical and contemporary musical varieties of the world.

 

Guitars, balafons, Mbè (long skin drum), NKuu or African telephone, are his favorite instruments. The NKuu (pronounced Nkou), called the African Telephone, is a wooden drum with slits which reproduces spoken languages ​​with its tones using the language of tones and ancestral rhythmic codes. It is used to communicate between the villages.  

 

Singer-songwriter, he writes and composes the play for each instrument and voices. Each composition speaks the language of Cameroonian ancestral musical traditions. Among the Bàsàa, the '' Bolbo '' dance is a musical ritual of meetings. He shares this approach in his WorldJazz music from the language of tones and the Bolbo whose time and mode of expression are everyday life, diversity and spirituality.

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