From December 2020, Cherimus association is a special guest of Spectrum web radio, an association founded in Brescia in 2019 by artists and musicians, “a corridor for sonic explorers”, as stated on their website.

Each month Cherimus will produce a podcast entitled Deggo Yëggo meets BLM Bergamo. The title highlights the meeting between Cherimus Deggo Yëggo’s project and Black Lives Matter Bergamo, the group of activists and artists for an anti-racist, inclusive and supportive Bergamo (we invite you to visit the global-network website https: // blacklivesmatter. com /).

As in Deggo Yëggo Cherimus supports the exchange between Sardinian and Senegalese communities present in Sardinia, the collaboration with BLM Bergamo has led to imagine a space that favors the voices of Afro-descendant Italian artists. A space capable of focusing on talents usually on the margins of the world of traditional and dominant media, capable of involving an audience that is too often ignored and excluded.

The name Deggo Yëggo was born during the rehearsals of the Sardinian-Senegalese group in Dakar, translated into English from Wolof it means: harmony, understanding, listening and sharing aimed at a common action. This will be the leitmotif of the podcast.

In the two hours of podcast you will be able to listen to:

~ in collaboration with BLM Bergamo:
– reading, musical selections, interviews
– presentation of artists and activists
– shapes and flans that will unroll while we get our hands and ears dirty

~ from the archives of Cherimus:
– sounds and songs of musical projects such as Chadal, Bisu Ndoto, etc
– interviews with the protagonists of Cherimus’ musical projects
– field-recordings: what was around it?

EPISODE 1

Kristah

The first episode features Kristah, soul singer and rapper / trapper of Ghanaian origin living in Bergamo. When interviewed by BLM Bergamo and Derek, she tells her story from her beginnings as a Master DNA, to the suspension in a middle ground that has the rhythm of Afro-trap. Living one’s nature is not just an individual matter but a spark that led Kristah to the co-foundation of The Key Ent., an independent label that brings together several artists and musicians who come from social minorities. We interviewed her on zoom on December 9, 2020, shortly after the release of the first single “Today I don’t go out” by the KID group, formed by Kristah, IBM and Derek.

Graphic: Samīra
Ph: Mouhamed Seck e Julia Hautojärvi
Mix: Pierre Aboa
Produced by BLM Bergamo and Derek MF Di Fabio for Cherimus


1) Master DNA – Afrotrap
2) KID – oggi non esco
3) A-Star – Hyperman
4) Derek Lemar – Radici nello spazio
5) Kristah – No more beggin’
6) F.U.L.A – maldafrica
7) Kristah – Trap the wave
8) Ramma – tutto ok
9) Gorka, Big P, Meth – Te lo giuro
10) Master DNA – cosa c’è
11) IBM – Not my type (feat. Emapee)
12) Slim Gong – Chiamami
13) Equipe 54 – Stilo
14) Fuse ODG – Boa Me ft. Ed Sheeran & Mugeez
15) Bey T, George Kalukusha, Lady Donli, Nemo, Ruth Ronnie, Trina South & Union5 – Kalakuta
16) Burna Boy -Monsters You Made (feat. Chris Martin)
17) Kristah – Mask off
18) David Blank & PNKSAND + il romantico – Foreplay
19) Burna Boy – Real Life feat. Stormzy
20) Beyoncé & Wiz Kid – Brown skin girl
21) Shabaka Hutchings & Kojey radical – no gangster
22) Deggo Yëggo – Thiow Li

EPISODE 2

Byron Rosero e O.T. Lover

One afternoon last December, Sara from BLM Bergamo met Byron Rosero and O.T. Lover: two artists whose families moved to Bergamo when they were children. Byron works primarily with video and as a director, O.T. Lover with dance and both are exploring different media.

In this conversation, the two tell and describe each other: from football cheering for Italy from the neighborhood of Casablanca to dancing in the wheat fields, escaping from the rigidity of the father, from the “millions of cameras” aimed at him in the small mountain villages , to the first savings transformed into film cameras to tell and invent their own narratives. Addressing problems without letting oneself be disheartened by the context and creating communities around one’s passions.

Interview by Sara Mehretab
Mix: Pierre Aboa
Graphic: Samīra e Derek MF Di Fabio
Ph: Mouhamed Seck, O.T. Lover, Byron Rosero
Produced by BLM Bergamo and Derek MF Di Fabio for Cherimus


1) J. Lord – My G
2) Residente – René
3) Tommy Kuti feat. Slim Gong – Come son finito qua
4) Epoque – Petite
5) JAY-Z – The story of O.J
6) Manca, Kaydy Cain, Madd – Baida
7) El Raton – Multicultural
8) ISSAM – Trap Beldi
9) Miriam Ayaba – Credo in te
10) Chris Brown – Day Goodbye
11) Deggo Yëggo – Maman
12) Flawless Real Talk – On my way
13) Jasley- Hooyo
14) Twenti – hey Bro
15) Shygirl – BB
16) Leikeli47 – Attitude
17) Equipe54 – Non Batti l’Equipe
18) KID – Oggi non esco
19) Miriam Ayaba – Sola
20) J. Lord – sixteen
21) Ngawa – Inshalla
22) Deggo Yëggo – Music