Somewhere in the middle of the Bone Bame touring cycle, 10LEC6 stopped being able to work. Nicole, the singer whose voice is the entire centre of the group, was served an OQTF, the French administrative order requiring a person to leave the country. The practical result was that the band could not honour festival bookings outside France. A Paris collective built almost entirely on movement, on diaspora, on rhythms carried between continents, was pinned to one territory by paperwork. It was Nicole who then told the others the legend of Ako Akas, a mountain in southern Cameroon that you are not supposed to walk around, because those who try are said to vanish into a dance with no end. The band have said plainly that the story struck…

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