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01. VAUDOU GAME - No Problem
02. VAUDOU GAME - Dangerous Bees
03. VAUDOU GAME - Pas Contente
04. VAUDOU GAME - Meva
05. VAUDOU GAME - Happiness
06. VAUDOU GAME - Ata Calling
07. VAUDOU GAME - Wrong Road
08. VAUDOU GAME - No Way to Go
09. VAUDOU GAME - Djin Ku Djin
10. VAUDOU GAME - Need a Job (CD-only)
11. VAUDOU GAME - Think Positive
12. VAUDOU GAME - Lazy Train (CD-only)
ARTIST
TITLE
Apiafo
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HC 032CD HC 032CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/30/2014

Vaudou Game is a contemporary live band of six members playing an authentic Togolese funk based on voodoo chant scales, and led by Peter Solo, a singer and composer born in Aneho-Glidji (Togo), birthplace of the Guin tribe and place of the voodoo culture. He was raised with those traditional values of human and environmental respect. Apiafo is a 12-track album, entirely recorded, mixed and mastered with old analog tapes, and played with vintage instruments, recalling the sound of bands like Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou or El Rego. Peter Solo invited his uncle, Roger Damawuzan, famous pioneer of the '70s soul scene in Togo, to sing on "Pas Contente" & "Wrong Road." The result of their collaboration is without a doubt two amazing future dancefloor classics. The idea of integrating these haunting lines, sung in honor of the Divinities, into an energetic '70s Afro-funk style, was, in Peter Solo's mind, an obvious extension of the analogy he found between the voodoo tradition and trance-inducers such as soul, funk, as well as the rhythm 'n blues of James Brown or Otis Redding. Vaudou Game will be touring all over the world to promote this new Afro-soul classic album.