The Bonbon Vodou duo release their 2nd album Creole cemetery.
The promise of the delights of sugar and the fear of the occult pepper. The contrast is pronounced, like the Voodoo candy.
The Vodou candy is Oriane Lacaille and JereM, two perfumes that complement each other to become one. She comes from a family of Reunionese musicians, he is the son of… Lacanian psychiatrists. From France to Canada, via La Réunion, the duo has given more than 150 concerts in three years.
Le Bonbon Vodou, from the first contact with the auditory taste buds, makes you feel the pulsations of its refined and yet pregnant rhythm. Tin case and hi-hat in a plastic bag, on its unique battery, Oriane has worked on it; with his guitar with the body of an oil can, JereM finely covered it with melodies.
Stories with two voices, which combine, sparkle and explode. Poems, sarcasm. A joyful and festive nostalgia, like the marine cemetery in the bay of Saint-Paul, Reunion Island.
The squares of earth covered with multicolored flowers have replaced the stone stelae. Supposedly dark, the place teems with life ready to be reborn again and again. A way to celebrate the end as a beginning, to laugh in sadness.
Bitten to its core, that’s where Bonbon Vodou leads. In this field of eternal rest, the starting point of this second album.
On site, surrounded by musical figures from the island, the duo treated themselves to the taste subtleties of sega and mayola. The accordion notes of Rene LacailleOriane’s father, the voice of Danyel Waro.
But also percussion – the kayamb of course! – and, in the local tradition, the breath of brass bands.
Piers Faccini to the realization of several titles, it is to John Lamoot (Noir Désir, Bashung, Salif Keïta…) that came back to the decisive work of recording and mixing which gives Bonbon Vodou its definitive flavour, its sweetness and its acidity.
Recorded between France and the volcanic island, beaten by the air of the Indian Ocean, the album transforms French song into Creole succulence.
In this Creole cemeteryBonbon Vodou invokes the occult deities, dances with them, travels, celebrates life and the present moment, gorged with the sugar that sweetens the most bitter moments.
Because, even with one foot in the grave, you can dance with the other.
Live session at the Grand studio RFI
Of anger Candy Voodoo Live RFI
Fonker see the clip
Follow Amoin my dalon (follow me buddy) Candy Voodoo Live RFI.
Musicians
– Oriane Lacaille vocals, percussion
– Jérémie Boucrisvocals, guitar.
Sound engineers: Benoit Letirant, Mathias Taylor.
Sweet Voodoo Playlist
– Piers Faccini Dunya sound
– Rene Lacaille, Vincent Segal, Danyel Waro Ti Cordeon sound
– Laura Cahen The lament of the sun clip
– Wise as savages Almost Perfect sound.