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◉ Altin Gün / Tatli Dile Guler Yuze Single  ◉

First single of forthcoming ALTIN GÜN album "On" 
Out March 30th 2018 on Les Disques Bongo Joe
Mixed by Jacco Gardner

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Altin Gün (freely translated: golden day) offer an exciting mix of Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. Their debut-album ‘On’ will be released mid March 2018 on Bongo Joe Records and presented to their fans in Istanbul, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Berlin.

The bands main influence comes from the soundtrack the 70’s in Turkey where artists like Selda, Barış Manço and Erkin Koray combined traditional music with western rock. Result is a style of it’s own, inspired by the originals, but with the sound of now.

The band itself was founded by bassplayer Jasper Verhulst. He found soulbrothers in guitarplayer Ben Rider, drummer Nic Mauskovic, percussion player Gino Groeneveld. The Turkish flavor in Altin Gun comes from singer, saz and keyboardplayer Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit and the powerful voice and energy of Merve Dasdemir.  A unique blend of styles and sounds which hardly can be heared these day.
 
After the release of their single Goca Dunya the band toured around in Europe. For 2018 shows in Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal and Spain are booked and their album ‘Go’ will be premiered in Istanbul on March 24.

Altin Gün - Tatli Dile Guler Yuze

◉ Abranis / Chenar le Blues Single | BJR45005 | April 15, 2018  ◉ 

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The 45s series goes on and presents for the first time music from the past. This fifth single focus on legendary algerian kabyle rock band Abranis founded in 1967. The band pioneered the fusion of chaabi (traditional) music with 60s-70s western rock, proudly singing in their own berber kabyle language while wearing hippy rockers outfits. Their shows - in deeply influenced by Pan-Arabism conservative Algeria - where often cancelled by governors and the band once was arrested by the police, generating riots. The band kept on playing and recording until mid 90s. This 45t presents two majors tracks from the band: 

A Side: Chenar Le Blues released in 1977 have been a big hit on algerian national radio. The band response to The Doors. 

B Side: Avehri released in 1983 shows the band’s obsession to merge different music styles with the North African traditional airs. This one goes strangely reggae.
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Cleaned & mastered at Stereophonic Mastering by Tim Stollenwerk 
Vinyl Cut at Centraldubs by Adi Flück 

Chenar Le Blues originally released on Disques Bordj El Phen in 1977 
Avehri originally self released in 1983

Abranis - Chenar Le Blues

◉ Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp / Sauvage Formes | BJR017 | April 26, 2018   ◉ 


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November 2016, 10 years of OTPMD. Vincent Bertholet, still resolute, finally realises his old dream of a‘real’ orchestra. And thus was born the project to expand the known horizon. The orchestra became XXL by assembling accomplices from the first hour, who had never really disappeared from view, and an English string section met along the way. From now on, they will be 14 on stage. An anniversary tour, prestigious stages and makeshift squats, unrestrained agitation as in the first days, and a larger chorus, more percussive than ever. The multi-headed Hydra gives voice in concert and the frail stages that host it groan under its weight. Nevertheless, it is in the studio that the foundation of a new adventure is forged. Back to England, in the imposing and magnificent building that houses Real World Studios. After Rotorotor (2014), John Parish is again at the controls. It’s called Sauvage Formes, a shrewd title, because everything here is as geometric as it is organic. The incisive rhythms, doubled in XXL, trademark of the pack, mingle with the unusually melancholy brass. The guitar riffs express themselves inminimalistic cascades, and since the number of strings has tripled, they allowthemselves the luxury of entwining with each other, like a carnal embrace without epilogue. The voices, more numerous than usual, recite, chant, lead the dance and poeticise, sometimes in French, sometimes in English, and, in the same spirit, the chorus takes the opportunity to shape the pediment of hymns to elsewhere. NOn crossing these 8 songs as beautiful as they are adventurous, it seems to be a story of a voyage, a torn logbook. On the horizon however, neither boat, nor rickety plane, neither map nor compass. Is it because the continent that is mentioned in these texts and melodies is not a known place, but rather a dream world, a land of asylum for rebels and the insubordinate, for the daring and the benevolent? The fourth Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp album is like a road, a purpose, an ideal of shared and shareable lives. And the writing of this music is like the defences of an imaginary seafront, like an act witnessing an intertwined destiny, an extraordinary adventure. The story of a chamberless orchestra, a sensitive battalion of unlimited generosity, a wild form that never needed a master to tame its imagination and determination.

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Across The Moor

◉ Cyril Cyril  - Colosse De Rhodes - 1st single of their upcoming 1st album CERTAINE RUINES out on September the 21th ◉

| On rotation all summer on France Inter  | co-release with BORN BAD RECORDS

“Cyril  Cyril  repeats  itself  as  a  reflection  would  in  infinite  mirrors.  A  vagabond  rumour,  borrowed  from  age  old  whispers,  beyond  Mounts  Atlas  and  Ararat,  to  whomever  is  willing  to  hear  the  echo  of  thousands  of  places where  melodies  hummed  by  angels  and  drums  are  beaten  continuously  since  the  birth  of  mankind.  With  a  banjo,  a  guitar,  a  melodeon,  strange  drums,  multiples  voices  and  languages  as  their  sole  companions,  Cyril  Cyril  cuts  a  groove  from  the  soul  and  transcends,  for  a  few  tracks  a  time,  the  good  manners  of  damned  souls.  The  tandem,  disguised  as  an  ghost-like  fanfare,  rises  like  a  phoenix  on  the  dance  floor...”

Cyril Cyril - Colosse De Rhodes

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◉ General Franco Lee Ezute And His Harmony International Band  / Onye Kata Obia ‎ | BJR0023 | October 5, 2018 ◉ 

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It’s an enormously exciting event to have this album reissued in a gorgeous, remastered edition, which will bring the music of this master artist to a new audience, and hopefully ignite a new interest in the exhilarating Ukwuani sound of the 1970s and 80s. If you’re about to listen to this music for the first time, you’re definitely in for a treat. 

Franco Lee Ezute died in 2013 at the age of 64, but thanks to this record his harmony will continue to reign supreme.

General Franco Lee Ezute And His Harmony International Band  - Onye Kata Obia

◉ La Ola Interior : Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983​-​1990 | BJR059 | March 05 , 2021  ◉ 

Following “La Contra Ola” (BJR015), Bongo Joe is pleased to present LA OLA INTERIOR, a compilation exploring the ambient side of the Spanish electronic music produced in the 80’s. It gathers musicians from various horizons and of many generations, who shared the desire to create an immersive soundscape and to combine electronic music with non-Western musical traditions. As a general rule, the Anglo-Saxon tropism did relate the spanish peninsula’s ambient music to the Balearic Sound, that is to say to the relaxing music played in Ibiza’s nightclubs. But this music takes place in the productive territory of experimental musics, and particularly in its two main breeding grounds: the tape recording underground and the independent musicians-producers scene.

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Finis Africae - Hybla

Les Disques Bongo Joe explorent les mondes actuels et souterrains, qu’ils soient porteurs d’instruments, de voix ou de machines. Ils creusent également dans les filons du temps pour y dénicher des pépites, d’ici et d’ailleurs.
On peut les trouver sous forme de vinyles aux pochettes sérigraphiées, au magasin Bongo Joe à Genève ou dispersés autour du globe.

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