For the 40th of the Banlieues Bleues festival, the #SessionLive receives 2 groups on the poster for this anniversary edition: Lova Lova #Kinshasa and Arnaud Dolmen #Guadeloupe.
The 1st guest of the #SessionLive is Congolese, he calls himself lova lova and released the EP Bokonzi.
UFO! Rarely will the word have taken on its full meaning when discovering the extraordinary total universe of this artist with the false airs of Sun Ra who calls himself Master Tonnerre.
Lova Lova in a nutshell:
– 1989: birth of Wilfried Beki, in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)
– 1999: enters music through rap, and quickly earns a first nickname “pope of rap”
– 2014: the photographer Kiripi Katembo Siku introduces him to the alternative Fine Arts network
– 2018: his first album, Kizobazoba (text “patchwork”) allows him to play in the Congo and in Europe.
Master Thunder, the other nickname of the one who calls himself Lova Lova or Man of Dreams, predicts the telluric power that arises from his music. ” I’m looking for sounds that come from parallel universes, to embody them with monstrosities. » Early church rapper, sapper Japanese “, worshiper of Zazou Bikaye, draftsman in his spare time, frequenting in underground mode the Fine Arts and the galaxy of the surrealists Kongo Astronauts, “ those that take off with simple vegetable leaves », Lova Lova found her calling in 2014, following the advice of the photographer Kiripi Katembo Siku, a talent who died far too soon. Like the latter, who reflected Kinshasa through puddles of water, this afro-punk in the full sense of the term, wants with his broken voice to show behind the scenes, the evils and the chaos that reign today. today in the Congolese megalopolis as in the whole world, with a verb as unbridled as his nervous rock-trance. “The world is collapsing, we may get out of it in post-apocalyptic mode. In 2050, the black man will become sperm because of excess sex. Kinshasa will be liquefied and superior sperm will build the city of the future, in stainless steel. » Quite readily quoting his eldest Jupiter, the other guide who enlightened him on his way nevertheless remains Franco, the illustrious Congolese who died the year he was born. Quite a symbol for those who wear a Pharaoh’s costume.
UFO! Rarely, the word will have taken on its full meaning when discovering the extraordinary total universe of this Congolese with the false airs of Sun Ra who calls himself Lova Lova, Master Thunder or Man of Dreams. Early church rapper, sapper Japanese », this afro-punk in the fullest sense of the term tumbles onto the stage like a prophet enraged by the evils and chaos of today, to strike us with his broken voice his four truths, not without a good dose of sweet delirium, with a verb as unbridled as its hectic rock-trance. Welcome to the magical world of Lova Lova, a powerful remedy for thought apathy.
Titles performed at the big studio
-Lolita Live RFI see the clip
– Mambu, excerpt from the Bokonzi EP see the clip
– Pyramid Live RFI.
Line-up: Lova Lova / song; Erick Lumana Masewu / bass; Simon Salumu Najady / bass; Gregory Fabrice Guibado / battery.
Sound: Fabien Mugneret & Mathias Taylor.
► EP Bokonzi (autoprod 2023).
Then we receive Arnaud Dolmen in the #SessionLive, Revelation Prize at the Victoires du Jazz 2022 for the album Adjusting.
Arnaud Dolmen, in brief:
* Born October 4, 1985
* Drummer, composer, producer, tanbouyé, sideman and leader
* Guadeloupean/Caribbean culture
* Styles: Jazz, Gwoka… + 15 years of experience + 80 albums recorded 3 leading projects between 2006 and 2015
* First jazz album “Tonbé Lévé” released in 2017
* Named Revelation Artist of 2017 by Jazz Magazine
* Musical composition for 2 documentaries + 1 play Figure in the film JAZZ(S) at the Philharmonie
* Second jazz album “Adjusting” released on January 28, 2022 (“Indispensable” by Jazz News, Élu Citizen Jazz, ★★★★ JazzMagazine)
* Named in the Top 5 of the best drummers of 2021 by Jazz Magazine and Jazz News Named in the Top 3 personalities of 2021 by France-Antilles Guadeloupe
* Winner of the Victoires du Jazz 2022, “Revelation” category.
In the #Sessionlive, Arnaud presents Adjusting, with remarkable guests: Vincent Peirani, Naissam Jalal And Moonlight Benjamin. In 12 titles, the Guadeloupean artist with a career of 15 years questions our interconnection, our human experience in a world as beautiful as it is noisy..
Titles performed at the big studio
hey cousin Live RFI
Ajisteman (sung by Moonlight Benjamin), taken from the album Adjusting
SQN Live RFI see the clip.
Line up: Arnaud Dolmen : battery ; Leonardo Montana : piano; Samuel F’hima : double bass; Francesco Geminiani : saxophone.
Sound: Mathias Taylor and Jérémie Besset.
► album Adjusting (Gaya Music Production 2022).