Oliba International: Oliba International (Vinyl LP)
Maaula Records
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. Oliba International sets the scene and transports us to an elsewhere both near and far, neither quite rural, nor quite urban: the quintet invites us to a tropical and popular dust ball. The group has adopted the Afro music codes that accompany daily life during celebrations, weddings or funerals: Congolese rumba sebene, Madagascar tsapiky, New Orleans second line, Kenya benga. Their goal ? The warming up, bringing the audience to dance and trance, making it come back in a pan of solar saxophone riffs and ultra-fast guitar, on the hot coals of a freed subaphone and a steadfast bass drum, at the heart of the devilish crackling of a hallucinated snare drum. Of the roles usually attributed to each instrument: here we are in polyphony, sometimes written and sometimes improvised; each one contributes to develop simple themes, perennial, endearing.
Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. Oliba International sets the scene and transports us to an elsewhere both near and far, neither quite rural, nor quite urban: the quintet invites us to a tropical and popular dust ball. The group has adopted the Afro music codes that accompany daily life during celebrations, weddings or funerals: Congolese rumba sebene, Madagascar tsapiky, New Orleans second line, Kenya benga. Their goal ? The warming up, bringing the audience to dance and trance, making it come back in a pan of solar saxophone riffs and ultra-fast guitar, on the hot coals of a freed subaphone and a steadfast bass drum, at the heart of the devilish crackling of a hallucinated snare drum. Of the roles usually attributed to each instrument: here we are in polyphony, sometimes written and sometimes improvised; each one contributes to develop simple themes, perennial, endearing.