Sacred Lodge began as a side project launched in 2017 by Matthieu Ruben N'Dongo, a Paris-based producer and sound artist also known as Coldgeist and member of NZE NZE.

Introduced to ethno-musicology during a master's degree in Musicology at Paris 8 University, he began working on the Fang people (from which his father originates) and their cosmogony known as Mvett. His research focuses on the role of music in ritual contexts, its social functions, and its syncretism with external influences.

Drawing equally from his Equato-Guinean heritage and the visceral energy of horrorcore and bass music, he reshapes these codes into an organized sonic mayhem. He uses the scream as a vocal act of liberation in the face of oppression, an act rooted in the tradition of field hollers, ritual chants, and resistance music. Through its brutal expressivity, immediate emotional impact, and awakening power, the scream becomes a sonic gesture of decolonization and bodily insubordination, a living signal of what is resisting.

His second album 'Ambam' is released by Avon Terror Corps. This carves out a space for more urgent emotional expression. Drawing on Frantz Fanon’s analysis of violence as a revolutionary, collective praxis, the album channels his anger at the enduring legacy of colonialism into a sonic exploration of resistance and identity.

Collaborating with artists he recently bonded with on both musical and human levels, the record features Cairo-based producer producer El Kontessa, Berlin-based sound artist Sara Persico, and Paris-based bass clarinetist Renaud Guy-Rousseau (aka 132Hz).

Ambam

Sacred Lodge ft. Sara Persico - Wa wa ke wa wa yi [Avon Terror Corps]

Sacred Lodge ft. El Kontessa - Mongu Nnang [Avon Terror Corps]

New album "Ambam" out on Avon Terror Corps

Producer / Sound artist
Also sorcerer in @nzenze

Contact:
cldgstmusic@gmail.com

GIGS:
14.11: Le Sample, Bagnolet
11.09: Nashaz, Bruxelles
18.07: SÀĆHÔ Festival, BZH

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Garage Noord, Blockhaus DY10, Zone Meta, Le Sample, Le Chinois, Brasseries Atlas, La Station Gare des Mines, Tresor, Petit Bain, Transient Festival, Espace B, FGO Barbara, Melkweg, Lavoir Moderne, RIAM, Astropolis, La Machine, Maintenant Festival...

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