KITEKY (vinyl couleur)

Description

For about ten years, Electric Vocuhila has been developing a singular, powerful and expansive music, inspired by various contemporary urban African musics or ceremonial musics, combined with orchestration and an approach to improvisation rooted in (free) jazz, and a search for sound saturation drawn from rock. This 4th album is dedicated to the tsapiky musicians met during a tour in Madagascar, just before the recording. The band was deeply marked by this trip, the concerts and the time spent with the Malagasy musicians. The track “Kiteky”, which gives the album its name and for which a first video was released in 2021, has become a hit in Tuléar (Toliara, the cradle of tsapiky), covered by many tsapiky bands in bals-poussière ceremonies. This new version of Kiteky as well as the tracks Kidola Dola (named by singers from Tuléar), Swift and Arthur Never Sleeps were reworked following the tour in Madagascar by assimilating sounds and rhythms from modern tsapiky. Infused with trance and celebration music, this new record also offers a few calmer and more written tracks (duo and trio with acoustic bass and no drums on Toliara and Kasaï Charm), electronic sounds on Kin, and an exploration of rhythms inspired by East African music (Swift, 445), Congolese tradi-modern music (445) and music from southeastern Madagascar (Mangaliba), sometimes layering them or placing them side by side.