YATTA

YATTA is a Sierra Leonean-American artist and composer working across experimental music, performance, and installation. Their 2024 album PALM WINE, named one of The Wire’s Best Albums of the Year, builds on the legacy of their great-uncle S. E. Rogie and reimagines palm-wine music — a traditional West African genre — through its storytelling, lilting vocals, and slant toward levity, ease, and play. PALM WINE sustains an experimental approach while opening into something more expansive and pop-leaning. The album is currently on its first European tour.