Description

Handcrafted percussion and electronically augmented strings unleash raw, danceable music for a party out of time.<div> Led by Lova Lova, aka Maître Tonnerre, Guembri Superstar takes you on a journey through a hybrid folk trance rooted in ancestral traditions and pumped with urban energy straight from the ghetto of Kinshasa. Alongside them, the magnetic Franco-Central African singer Emma Lamadji, with her powerful and soulful voice, infuses this electrifying ceremony with a soulful and spiritual intensity.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Hieroglyphic Being / Hamid Drake / Shabaka / Dudu Kouaté</div><div> Four visionary sonic explorers come together for a unique creation where ancestral African traditions, trance, improvisation, spiritual jazz, and electronic music converge. Around the cosmic textures and hypnotic pulses of Chicago DJ Hieroglyphic Being, the earthy rhythms of drummer Hamid Drake converse with the incandescent breath of Shabaka and the ritualistic percussion of Dudù Kouaté. A free and vibrant sonic ceremony—and perhaps, already, the music of the future.</div>