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Bantou Mentale Bantou Mentale A dark, thundering Kinshasa meets Paris soundworld. Ecstatic vocals, broken beats, subterranean bass and full-throttle energy. Features ex-members of Konono No.1, Mbongwana Star & Staff Benda Bilili. Knife-edged afro rock. Hot-wired global beats. Produced by Doctor L (Tony Allen, Mbongwana Star)
The Bantou Mentale sound is neither traditional, nor slave to the all-encompassing tropes of Congolese rumba, nor slick and arty and self-consciously stylish. Neither haute culture nor haute couture. Theyre bringing something modern, raw, open to the world, a sound that faithfully mirrors who they are: four baggage-free citizens of nowhere and everywhere on a mission to rewrite the washed-up codes of African music and realign it with the raw truths of this frazzled, screwed and beautiful world. Theyre bringing a new punk rock, African style, but without the aggression because, according to Cubain, the Congo is a country with a lot of spiritual tenderness. Liam and Cubain have been distilling experimental mashes of electro African beats on and off for years, under names like Black Cowboys or Negro-P.
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