Wild, dark and solar, feminine and powerful, calling the spirits to challenge the modern world with incantations, dances and ancestral percussions, electric guitars and computers. On stage, healing mistresses & musicians make a pact with the demons: it will take much more than good intentions but sweat and enormous volume to achieve emancipation & deliverance.
It’s extremely strong, often violent, women dominate and people will only have respite when all their demons will be satisfied. It’s coming from the deep, obscure & primordial Senegal and it will be released by Bongo Joe Records on November 03, 2023.
Still working from years with Ifriqiyya Electrique, François R. Cambuzat and Gianna Greco could not find out where the North African adorcist communities, such Banga, Stambeli, Diwan, Gnawa, came from. Of the Arab-Muslim slave route, that was certain, but from which country, from which region? The traces seemed lost. Research after research, little by little this five-century-old road led them to West Africa, Senegal and the Lebous N’döep. For months in Mbour, Guereo, Rufisque, Yoff and Ndar (Saint-Louis), François R. Cambuzat and Gianna Greco got lost among the seas and banks of Senegal, sacrificing to spirits -most often aquatic- NDOX, water, in the Wolof language.
Album “Bongo Joe Records” – 03/11
Premiere Europe Guess Who ? 12/11
Premiere France Trans Musicales 07/12
TOUR – Dec 23 + summer 24 + Nov/Dec 24
+ on demand from France
Visas ok
Residence - Dec. 23 Rennes 2 University
Workshop - Grand Orchestre du Désastre
Workshop - Percussions / talk-conference
Awa Mbodji - Vocal
Ndeye Coumba Mbaye Kebe - Vocal
Oumar Ngom - Nder, mbëng-mbëng, thiol, tama & choir
Mouhamet "Sangue" Sambe - Nder, mbëng-mbëng, thiol, tama & choir
Mamadou "Pape" Ngom - Nder, mbëng-mbëng, thiol, tama & choir
Gianna Greco - Bass, choir, computer & videos
François R. Cambuzat - Guitars, choir, computer & videos