Five years into the project, with two acclaimed albums and dozens of triumphant international performances to its name, Yermande announces a thrilling new phase for this Dakar-Berlin collaboration: emphatically a giant step forward. The group of players is boiled down to twelve for recordings, eight for shows; sessions in Dakar become steeply more focussed. ‘This time around I was better able to specify what I wanted right from the initial recording sessions in Dakar,’ says Ernestus, 'and further in the production process I took more freedom in reducing and editing audio tracks, changing MIDI data, replacing synth sounds and introducing electronic drum samples.’ Right away you hear music-making which has come startlingly into its own. Rather than submitting to the routine, discrete gradations of recording, producing and mixing, the music is tangibly permeated with deadly intent from the off. Lethally it plays a coiled, clipped, percussive venom and thumping bass against the soaring, open-throated spirituality of Mbene Seck’s singing. Plainly expert, drilled and rooted, the drumming is unpredictable, exclamatory, zinging with life. Likewise the production: intuitive and fresh but utterly attentive; limber but hefty; vividly sculpted against a backdrop of cavernous silence. Six chunks of stunning, next-level mbalax, then, funky as anything.

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19/08/23 @ N Oi Festival Berlin
05/08/23 @ Kuhlmühle Wittstock/Dosse
25/06/23 @ Zuckerzauber Berlin
24/06/23 @ Crack Bellmer Berlin
13/05/23 @ Sektor Dresden
01/05/23 @ Disko Babel Berlin
29/04/23 @ Mensch Meier Berlin
25/03/23 @ Humboldthain Club Berlin
09/12/22 @ ://about blank Berlin
04/11/22 @ Werke Stralsund
25/09/22 @ Jana Knete Berlin
27/08/22 @ Jubeljahre Festival Galenbeck
06/08/22 @ N Oi Festival Berlin
30/07/22 @ Jerny Kaagman Berlin
03/07/22 @ Zuckerzauber Berlin
04/06/22 @ Pontoon Budapest
13/11/21 @ Loophole Berlin
08/10/21 @ Crack Bellmer Berlin
24/09/21 @ Lost Art Festival Berlin
27/08/21 @ Zuckerzauber Berlin
15/08/21 @ Çani Knüffel Berlin
08/08/21 @ Sounds Garten Berlin
23/07/21 @ Jarni Knarpal Berlin
18/07/21 @ Zuckerzauber Berlin
12/02/21 @ Daosyndikat Livestream
12/09/20 @ Milde Möhre Festival - Klimperkiste 
12/07/20 @ Zuckerzauber Berlin
07/03/20 @ Julie Klepel Berlin
21/12/19 @ Het Hart Utrecht
20/12/19 @ Kosmische Festival Utrecht
14/12/19 @ Loophole Berlin
23/11/19 @ Velvet Monkey Berlin
10/11/19 @ Beate Uwe Berlin
26/10/19 @ Mantis Festival Utrecht
22/10/19 @ UHU Berlin
18/10/19 @ Einer Bucht Berlin
12/10/19 @ Loftus Hall Berlin
07/09/19 @ Kili Berlin
24/08/19 @ Velvet Monkey Berlin
25-28/07/19 @ Chateau Perché Festival 
23/06/19 @ Zuckerzauber Berlin
22/06/19 @ Thanari Kunst-Werk-Hof

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