Since 2012, Yohann Le Ferrand explores the music of West Africa and more particularly that of Mali where we could see him on guitar in the show of Rokia Traoré & Serge Aimé Coulibaly, then alongside Inna Modja or Tiken Jah Fakoly. Since his beginnings in traditional Breton music, he has forged a musical identity with Afro-American aesthetics (jazz/funk) which naturally brought him to Africa.
Eternal traveler, this meeting with the mother earth, roots of all his influences, knew how to refine his musical language in organic compositions with afro funk pop tints where the acoustic texture always has this universal inclination.
He is a guitarist for several artists such as Kandy Guira, Mamylove Sarambé or the collective Kinyonga, etc…