· The Founding ·
Our Story.
Liberation Music began as one musician's way to keep learning - and grew into a bridge between cultures, communities and the traditions that carry them.
Origins
A project born from the need to keep studying.
Jake Hakus founded Liberation Music in late 2024 as a means to continue his own musical studies. After years of travelling, listening and learning from master musicians across West Africa and Morocco, he realised that the deepest education did not happen in classrooms or online. It happened in living rooms, on rooftops, in rehearsal spaces and by the fire - sitting at the feet of people who had inherited the music as birthright.
Rather than study alone, he built a structure that would allow others to study alongside him. Each journey is shaped by the questions he is asking in his own practice, the artists he is learning from, and the communities he has been welcomed into over time.
"I wanted to create something that honoured the people who taught me, while giving others the chance to learn directly from the source."
The Mission
Cross-pollinate communities. Share knowledge. Support indigenous traditions.
Liberation Music exists to connect musicians and music-lovers from around the world with the master practitioners who keep ancient traditions alive. By travelling together, learning together and listening carefully, we help carry these musics forward while returning value directly to the communities that created them.
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Hear the story in sound.
What Drives Us
Three pillars.
Continue the Studies
Every journey is built around real learning. Jake travels with the group, studies with the masters, and opens doors that would otherwise stay closed to short-term visitors.
Cross-Pollinate Communities
We bring people from different backgrounds into direct contact - travellers, local musicians, artisans, elders and young artists - so that ideas, friendships and collaborations can grow across borders.
Support Indigenous Musicians
By paying masters properly, hiring locally, and centring community-led experiences, we make sure the people who carry these traditions benefit directly from sharing them.
Where We Work
Africa and Morocco.
Our current focus is West Africa and Morocco - regions whose musics have travelled the world, often through forced migration, and whose roots remain alive in villages, cities and desert camps.
In Senegal and The Gambia, we study with griot families and djembe masters whose lineages stretch back generations. In Morocco, we work with Gnawa musicians and desert blues bands in the south. In Cabo Verde, we trace the Atlantic crossings that shaped the islands' sound.
These are not tourist performances. They are living traditions, taught by the people who inherited them, to travellers willing to listen deeply.
Join Us
Be part of the next chapter.
Whether you are a musician looking to deepen your practice or a curious traveller drawn to the source, there is a place for you in this story.