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With salient guitars, restless rhythms, gushing electronics and resentful lyrics, Bantou Mentale intertwines the fierce energy of Kinshasa, the D.R.C.’s capital, with the cosmopolitan effervescence of Château Rouge or Matongé, the African areas of Paris and Brussels. This group brings together the producer Liam Farrel, aka Doctor L. (FFF, Assassin, Tony Allen…) and the drummer Cubain Kabeya, (Staff Benda Bilili, Konono No. 1, Jupiter & Okwess), as they continue the Franco-Congolese venture Mbongwana Star in the company of the guitarist Chicco Katembo (Staff Benda Bilili) and the singer Apocalypse (Koffi Olomide). Everything on this album screams urgency, the immediate need to break free from the political and social shackles which restrain the world we live in today. The tracks Syria and Boko Haram criticise violence, whereas Zanzibar and Sango detail the nightmares which illegal immigrants go through. This music drives home the importance of the need to keep your body dancing and to continue the search for hope. © Benjamin MiNiMuM/Qobuz
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Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Liam Farrell, Composer - Bantou Mentale, MainArtist - Chicco Osisemo Katembo, Composer - Kubain Kabeya, Composer
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
Album review
With salient guitars, restless rhythms, gushing electronics and resentful lyrics, Bantou Mentale intertwines the fierce energy of Kinshasa, the D.R.C.’s capital, with the cosmopolitan effervescence of Château Rouge or Matongé, the African areas of Paris and Brussels. This group brings together the producer Liam Farrel, aka Doctor L. (FFF, Assassin, Tony Allen…) and the drummer Cubain Kabeya, (Staff Benda Bilili, Konono No. 1, Jupiter & Okwess), as they continue the Franco-Congolese venture Mbongwana Star in the company of the guitarist Chicco Katembo (Staff Benda Bilili) and the singer Apocalypse (Koffi Olomide). Everything on this album screams urgency, the immediate need to break free from the political and social shackles which restrain the world we live in today. The tracks Syria and Boko Haram criticise violence, whereas Zanzibar and Sango detail the nightmares which illegal immigrants go through. This music drives home the importance of the need to keep your body dancing and to continue the search for hope. © Benjamin MiNiMuM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:58
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Bantou Mentale
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Glitterbeat Records
- Genre: World Africa
2019 Glitterbeat Records 2019 Glitterbeat Records
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