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01. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Balobi
02. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Keba na butu
03. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Akei
04. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Bana Disco
05. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Prisonner
06. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Zela
07. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Are U Ok
08. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - Zala Gentil
09. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - It's a Bomb
10. Tonn3Rr3 & Bikaye - La forêt et les Dieux
ARTIST
TITLE
It's a Bomb
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BORNBAD 169CD BORNBAD 169CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/15/2023

For a long time, the music of Congo-born Bony Bikaye had to be sought in the purgatory of "world music," where diamonds in the rough cohabited with bland nightmares of white dudes who froze rumba like fish sticks. Worse, they did put it on the menu, when so many longed to move on. Take Bikaye, who grew up listening to modern European music, digs Krautrock, struggles with tradition, obviously looking for trouble in the genre. In Brussels, he recorded a few albums with CY1 (Loizillon/Micheli), and brilliant defectors from Aksak Maboul, produced by Hector Zazou. Now it's up to French trio TONN3RR3 to take up the torch and build this project that proudly brags: "It's a bomb." Thought up at home by Guillaume Gilles (compo/keyboards), the album was finished at One Two Pass It studio, with Olivier Viadero and Gaëlle Salomon on percussion, Yoann Dubaud (machines & bass) and Guillaume Loizillon (synth of CY1 fame, and matchmaker of this affair). It's a deeply musical record, crafted by no-attitude reference players with nothing left to prove, and you can hear it. Floats well above the fray.