"Gunkali" is a straight forward raga executed freely by our sitar player Joël van Roode. We tried to lift the sitar melody to a more funky, afrobeat approach with some hardhitting horn lines and a dirty guitar theme. Due to Frederik Kühn’s massive production ‘Gunkali’ sounds fresh and uplifting.
Personnel: Joël Van Roode - sitar | Frederik Kühn  - percussion | Sander Vos  - percussion | Robby Swiggers - guitar | Marc Jans - horns | Steve Vandervoort - bass | Hans van Scharen - horns | Alexander Dingens - horns | Jeroen Ollevier - keys | Stan Hennes - drums

Recorded, Mixed & Produced by FREDERIK KÜHN
Mastered by FREDERIK DEJONGH at JERBOA MASTERING
Design & Illustration by LM Lambrechts

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Alpacas Collective is super proud to release the second single from our new album to the world titled Movéfèzè, or 'wrongdoers' or 'bad guys' in Creole. Creole? Yes, you read that correctly. Those who know us know that we are inspired by music and languages from all corners of the world and for this new track we make a stop in the Caribbean, the island of Martinique to be precise.

Movéfèzè is an intoxicating, hypnotic cocktail of funky jazz vibes, larded with a poetic and lyrical rap by Nèg Madnick, who was inspired by the track originally called'The Sorcerer'. Nèg Madnick - one of the hip-hop pioneers in Martinique who was the very first to start rapping political lyrics in Creole in the early 1990s. He wrote his blazing lyrics that gave a new sound and name to the tune.  
In the song 'Movéfèzè', Nèg Madnick denounces the wealthy plantation owners who poisoned his beautiful Caribbean island with toxic pesticides and the lack of justice; These descendants of the colonial era - who grew rich through forced labour of enslaved people and sugar production, and still largely control the island's economy - used a specific DDT-like pesticide called 'chloredecone' for the large plantations of export bananas.
While this pesticide was banned in the US since the late 60ies and the WHO called it carcinogenic in 1979, ‘the banana-cartel’ kept using it’s stocks well into the 90’ies, knowing very well that they were putting people and ecosystems at risk. The widespread use of chlordecone in these French Caribbean islands poisoned the soil and water and been linked to unusually high rates of prostate cancer. 
After a decade of campaigning and protesting by action groups like ‘Zéro chlordécone, zéro poison’, it was only in 2018 that French head of state Macron agreed that France was responsible for what the President himself called "an environmental scandal". But it is a human rights issue, which the French state does not want to reciognise, maybe because it would cost too much? 
If one listens well somehow the track ‘Movéfèzè transmits dormant emotions of anger and rebellion, a revolt that could emerge from the luscious bush at any moment:  serious shit, on a dangerous groove! Enjoy the Maroonjazzfunk !

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En estos tiempos tan locos, más que nunca está presente la necesidad del arte para transmutar y compartir una visión alegre, de las bellas cosas que contiene esta experiencia humana… y que mejor que un clásico con “ritmo bueno pa´ goza´” Con mucho cariño esta versión que espero les agrade y sirva para poner a bailar cuerpos y corazones.

In these crazy times, more than ever the need for art is present to transmute and share a joyful vision of the beautiful things that this human experience contains... and what could be better than this classic with "ritmo bueno pa´gozar"?
With much love this version that I hope you like and serves to make bodies and hearts dance.
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Country: UK
Released: 1963

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