Electric Mambo by Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers - Angstrom Records [ANGSTROM18] FLAC download included with physical items

Electric Mambo

Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers

A 2 track dub ep (6m 49s) — released March 1st 2019 on Angstrom Records

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The first release of Chouk Bwa & the Ångstromers combines a nouveau dub sensitivity with a Haitian rhythm science. It is a new collaboration between the traditional Haitian Mizik Rasin (roots music) band, Chouk Bwa Libète, and the abstract sound engineering of the Ångstromers. The result is a very distinctive blend: a kind of future-leaning Vodou dub.

The Chouk Bwa rhythm scientists are steeped in the deep traditions and long cultural memory found in Gonaïves, Haïti. Branching out of Africa into an expanding Diaspora, this incarnation seeks a new soundscape for each evocation. Never a retromania always obsessed with return, Chouk Bwa & the Ångstromers unearth untimely dances where rituals of the future can be heard leaking into the precisions of the past.

The two tracks were selected from the first meeting with the Ångstromers at Café Central, Brussels, recorded live in September 2016. Modular synths and other vintage electronic instruments bring another dimension to Chouk Bwa's music, although obviously it is always the band's groove and fluent tempo that leads the energy of the ensemble: no laptops, no drum machines. There are certain freedoms that cannot be coerced. Even more, the electronic instruments are wired directly to the drums that feed them with impacts and caresses. All the Vodou families are there with their many rhythms and songs. Radical Vodou roots for urban audiences.

With disciplined fervour, Chouk Bwa Libète delivered a scorching set of soul-stirring, call-and-response funkiness. - Doug de Loach Songlines (UK)

Any of us could have died during the show and considered it a fitting end to a life well lived! - Jim Morekis Connect Savannah (USA)

The energy was so infectious that lead vocalist Jean Claude Sambaton Dorvil even seemed to be possessed with a spirit for some time, adding a layer of drama to the performance - Madanmohan Rao World Music Central (IN)

More than a crafted art form, the music of Chouk Bwa Libète arose in waves of percussion, vocals and movement that seemed authentically inspired right in the moment and communicated nothing but the sheer joy of sharing exactly that particular, unique musical moment. - Catalina Maria Johnson Wall Street International (USA)

When they hopped off the stage and into the melee, I saw a couple of hippies nearly keel over from... joy? Thirst? Authenticity overload? We may never know. - Mina Zhou spin.com (USA)

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