{"product_id":"fidel-fourneyron_bengue-vinyl_2023_lad","title":"BENGUE (vinyl)","description":"'Bengue', seen from the South, is the North. This word, often heard in West Africa, is synonymous with Europe, evoking the migrations that have led those seeking a better life there. It is to them, and to their children of mixed culture, Afro-Europeans, that Fidel Fourneyron, who loves nothing more than to make jazz travel by marrying it to music that challenges local ears and sharpens his appetite, wanted to pay tribute. This is how he had already explored, with his gang of jazz musician friends, the paths of Cuban Santeria, embodied by incredible Havana percussionists, on the excellent Que Vola? (No Format, 2019). This time, at the invitation of the Jazz sous les Pommiers festival where he is continuing a long residency, he was going to tackle West African music, in the same spirit of encounter and taste for cross-pollination. The idea: to invite young and seasoned Afro-Caribbean diaspora authors to write texts on migration, exiles, and to make heard other words than those that European politicians exploit as so many ticking time bombs. He would set them to music, reinforced by musicians from here and elsewhere, ready to engage in a joyful curiosity. The sound of wood fascinated him, and the balafons of sisters Ophélia and Mélissa Hié, perpetuating the rich Burkinabe musical traditions, imposed themselves on him. With the desire for them to meet Vassilena Serafinova's marimba, thus bringing together two instruments linked by a distant and deep kinship. This melodic and rhythmic foundation then offered him an ideal playground to initiate a discussion with his trombone, and to establish a more feminine groove in its sensibility, more solar in its climates (just listen to \"Molengue ti mawa\" to be convinced). He would associate it with that of bassist and tireless improviser Thibaud Soulas, who once opened the way to Cuba for him. To complete the crew of this unprecedented vessel, violinist Clément Janinet, who steeped his instrument in the colors of Malian strings (listen instead to Foyer), and the alto voice of Emma Lamadji, raised on gospel, forged by afrobeat rhythms, and refined by her singing companionship with Malian diva Oumou Sangaré. Suffice to say, this gathering of musical personalities itself invited journeys, and Fidel Fourneyron, as a sensitive captain, would spur on the possibilities. Since his creation \"La Chanson de Renart\" in the form of an opera, the trombonist has developed a taste for working with authors, conveyors of words, stories, and ideals. The texts of 'Bengue', each in their own way, resonate like calls that spread the sorrows, joys, and hopes of the heirs of a long and tortuous history, which Fidel Fourneyron has dressed in singular colors and climates with this orchestra as mixed as their authors. Whether it is Fiston Mwanza Mujilla (author, among others, of \"Tram 83\" who signs the explosive \"Nous résisterons au déluge\" here), Penda Diouf whose show Pistes he adored (we owe her \"Mes pas sont des passerelles\" here), or the Haitian poet James Noël (\"Anmwe\"), whose poetic work in the collection \"La migration des murs\" sparked in Fidel the idea that gave birth to 'Bengue'. To these are added the poem by Vhan Holsen Dombo (\"Kotiko Koko\") which, inspired by a Central African lullaby, joins the chanted rhythm that is the hallmark of its author, or the nostalgic sweetness of 'Ho'o lo' signed by Cameroonian singer Blick Bassy. Not forgetting the science and poetic license of Djeudjoah (\"Foyer\"). Emma Lamadji's voice brings to life almost all the texts that make up 'Bengue'. Like an alter ego of the trombone, of which she is the best playmate. The singer has not only lent her voice, as she also wrote the lyrics for the two tracks that open and close the album. They resonate with the music of Sango from Central Africa, her mother tongue, and \"I Goué Na Dawan\" - the first single to be released - wonderfully summarizes, in its last verses, the spirit of the entire album. 'Bengue' is first and foremost a journey, a journey into imaginaries that are just waiting to be shared. All you have to do is let yourself be carried away.","brand":"Fidel Fourneyron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310252802392,"sku":null,"price":20230203.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381576955_a0a95682-08b8-4136-a40f-7d71dc1219fc.jpg?v=1760318399","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/fidel-fourneyron_bengue-vinyl_2023_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}