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[genevieveetguy]

Omen (Augure), Baloji (2023)

[burlveneer-music]

Denis Mpunga & Paul K - Criola + remix EP (Music From Memory)

The work of the Belgian/Congolese duo Denis Mpunga and Paul K. is the subject of Music From Memory’s latest compilation EP, ‘Criola’. Combining elements of traditional African music with experimental electronics, the pair recorded and released only a handful of tracks, scattered across a few obscure LP and cassette compilations. Bringing together this material for the first time ‘Criola’ includes both released as well as unreleased material from the musician’s archives dating from between 1980-1984.

At a time when world-music was becoming hugely popular across Europe especially so in Belgium and France, the pair were keen to try and explore African music in a new contemporary way. Much like the intentionally provocative archival image, which Denis selected for the sleeve of ‘Criola’, the recordings set out to play with and challenge preconceptions and expectations of African music and African culture. Together, Denis Mpunga and Paul K.’s, if somewhat brief, musical adventure would create a fascinating new musical language, African music born out of an industrial European landscape; music which the compilation ‘Criola’ reveals as both wholly unique and visionary.

As well as the tracks featured on our 'Criola' compilation of works by Denis Mpunga & Paul K. We also received from them some great short sketches. Lasting mostly less than a minute and some even just a few seconds there was some great ideas but the 'tracks' seemed just too short to include on the compilation. So we decided it could be great to share these sketches with some of our friends and favourite producers along with the tracks included on 'Criola' with the idea that they would create a series of remixes or use these sketches as samples. The result is a six track EP with remixes/reworks from Tolouse Low Trax, Interstellar Funk, Prins Emanuel, Androo and Dazion.

[genevieveetguy]

My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes), Caroline Vignal (2020)

[ariannausoleil]

[movienized-de-blog]

L’ascension (2017) - mehr auf: http://movienized.de/lascension-2017/

[standardandgrooves]

[octoberlovesong]

expert level rhythmic flute  http://inverted-audio.com/review/denis-mpunga-paul-k-criola/

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Stephen’s Review – Marguerite

Stephen’s Review – Marguerite

Off Key, This Tragic Farce Falls Flat. Catherine Frot Cannot Rise Above This Tone-Deaf Production.

French writer/director Xavier Giannoli’s Margueriteis the first of not one, but two takes on the sheltered life of rich American heiress and extravagant socialite Florence Foster Jenkins who harbours delusions of operatic grandeur that, at first, polite society tolerates, merely sniggering behind…

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