AFRODIZIAK (vinyl EP)

Description

AFRODIZIAK: THE NEW SWEET-AND-SOUR CONFECTION FROM Bonbon Vodou IN AN ENHANCED “PIMENT PIMENT” VERSION! Bonbon Vodou is the sweet-and-sour confection concocted by Oriane Lacaille and JereM Boucris. Bathed in the softness of clear voices and driven by a devastating groove, Bonbon Vodou distills joy and spreads a wave of trance. Bonbon Vodou renews, in French and Réunion Creole, the melodic and fanciful marriage of the grouple (couple-group) Areski B./B. Fontaine. On her homemade one-of-a-kind mini drum kit, Oriane makes bodies shake to the pulses of Réunion Island. JereM, with his guitar with an oil-drum body and North African reminiscences, blends these rhythms with haunting melodies. The Creoleness of Bonbon Vodou is expressed in a bonfire, which summons both Brassens in chorus and the explosive triple meter of the Indian Ocean. If the duo has adopted the Creole spelling of AFRODIZIAK, it is because it perfectly extends the very real dream of their African roots. Singing of the beauty of métissage and the harshness of migrant life. The quest for hidden treasure, lives of migration, and island lives are all steeped in it.