Franck Biyong & Massak - Spirits Into Sound - out now on COLORED-INC.
Franck Biyong & Massak - Spirits Into Sounds
New Directions In Afro Music - Volume 1
(Limited CD/Download) Colored-Inc. COLI006, 2010-05-10
As so called "world-music" invaded the western hemisphere two decades ago, the concept of Afro-Futuristic-Jazz pioneered in the sixties and seventies gradually vanished…
This re-issue release Spirits into Sounds explores this very dimension of African Jazz in a unique blend of "controlled freedom" music where the lines blur between the collective improvisations, tight Afrobeat jams with M’base-sounding-like horn lines, strong percussive work, psychedelic synthesizers, rock guitars…
These new directions in Afro music called Afrolectric sound recall these familiar "sounds" while pointing new directions towards the future...
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