Obsession is a studio collaborative album by Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke and German jazz singer Céline Rudolph. The album won German Echo Jazz prize and nomination for the annual German Record Criticsâ List in 2018. In 2019, Rudolph invited Loueke to record her album Pearls. In 2018, Rudolph and Loueke toured seven West African countries with the album on behalf of the Goethe-Institut.
A reviewer of Deutschlandfunk Kultur wrote: "This duo, which sounds at least like a band, sometimes even like an orchestra, plays and sings wonderful favorite songs, sometimes in English, sometimes in French, sometimes in their own invented language. In a live setting, it becomes clear that each album is just a snapshot in time. What's crucial is that the music evolves and reinvents itself with every concert."