Name: Secret Planet: Dogo du Togo
Start: 2025-10-03T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 112 St Joseph Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15210

Friday Oct 3rd
7pm Doors
8pm
$20
Emerging from Lomé, Togo , Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band is a collective of top Togolese musicians led by Massama Dogo who want put Togolese music on the map by blending psychedelic rock and afrobeat into a genre-defying sound he calls the “Alagaa Beat.”

Traditional Togolese rhythms form the base of rising Togolese artist.
The songs are based on togolese traditional rhythms with ritual melodies (voodoo melodies) festive melodies, and talk about immigration, social justice...

Born in Lome, Togo,Dogo played in different bands in the Togolese capital before moving to the United States and founded the DC based Afropop, Elikeh.

Dogo du Togo’s music bursts with brilliant shades of funk, rock, and older West African traditions, familiar elements that come together in fresh sounds” (popmatters.com).
“a really exciting and innovative West African band that fuses psychedelic rock, funk, and voodoo melodies with great energy” (Le Monde).
“When you listen to this music,” says Dogo, “if you don’t get in a trance, then something’s wrong with you! The alagaa beat brings the energy right away. As soon as you bring it in, it just feels different, it takes you somewhere else.” The melodies, too, are anchored in Togo’s rich cultural history, using unique pentatonic scales known as Mina or Mami, derived from the music of the local Vodún religion and traditions that permeate everyday life in Togo.