Rosier Audibert
Hozanna

Stima Records est fier de rendre à nouveau disponible l’une des curiosités les plus rares de la scène gwoka fusion parisienne, avec la permission de Jimmy Blanche lui-même.Jimmy a su mélanger avec brio le gwoka traditionnel de Guadeloupe avec d’autres influences pour créer son propre son, dansant, spirituel et indéniablement 80’s.Dou Van Jou est de ces disques mystérieux et rares qui méritent d’être (re)découverts, image d’une époque où modernité et tradition se mêlaient dans l’esprit bouillonnant d’un artiste multifacette d’origine guadeloupéenne.Enregistré en 1987, il fait entendre une fusion originale entre gwoka, musiques du monde, jazz et usage enthousiaste de synthétiseurs. Bien que diffusés de façon intimiste, certains morceaux ont acquis le statut d’oeuvre culte : “Misik A Moun A Kaz”, avec son rythme gwoka mendé, ses pianos salsa et sa basse disco a été joué par Emil Omar ou encore Air Baer dans son Boiler Room. “Tambou La & Ti Bois La”, dans la pure tradition gwoka, est devenu un tube souvent chanté dans les léwoz d’Ile-de-France, ces rencontres musicales et dansantes de la tradition guadeloupéenne, héritées des Neg Marrons.Véritable activiste culturel et insatiable voyageur, Jimmy Blanche a organisé de nombreux concerts en assurant notamment durant plusieurs années la programmation de la Chapelle des Lombards, puis plus récemment au New Morning ; il a travaillé avec la légende gwoka Guy Konket, l’immense Manu Dibango, ou encore Eric Serra. Il joue d’ailleurs avec ce dernier dans le cultissime Subway de Luc Besson.

"The last time I found myself on the phone with Jean-Christian Mboumba Mackaya known as Mack-Joss - founder of the Mighty Orchestra Massako - I could hear gun-shots in the background. Libreville was upside down following the re-election of president Ali Bongo in August 2016. By the time I was ready to go ahead with this project, Mack-Joss’s phone number had been disconnected, and shortly afterwards I found out that the baobab of Gabonese music had fallen.An adept of folk rhythms, Mack-Joss’s career as a musician began when he was just 17 of age and he quickly established himself as a staple of Libreville’s nightlife scene, singing in various local bands. By 1966 he had released “Le Boucher”, his first hit which swept the African airwaves and earned him the respect of Franco, the legendary master of Congolese Rumba. Franco´s encouragement helped transform him from a Gabonese singer into an ascendent figure of pan-African culture.Between 1968 and 1970 Mack-Joss and his Negro-Tropical immortalised a good number of singles recorded in a makeshift open-air recording studios and in 1971 Gabon armed forces decided to form their own band. Mack-Joss was recruited to become the band leader and this was the birth of Orchestre Massako which became Gabon’s national orchestra.At the end of the 1970´s funds were made available to bring recording equipment over from France. Studio Mobile Massako was born and Mack-Joss’s songwriting ability provided hit after hit. The master tapes with the recordings were sent to Paris for mixing and Mack-Joss would personally make the journey to France, carrying the reels in his hand luggage. The vinyl records were then pressed in France and shipped back to Gabon, and to other distributors throughout the continent. About a dozen long play records were recorded between 1978 and 1986 and most were released on Mass Pro, Mack-Joss´s own label. A few of these recordings featured a singer from Guinée Conakry by the name of Amara Touré who had joined Orchestre Massako as a singer in 1980 and had become an important ingredient in the band’s success. His specific voice, impossible not to recognise, left no one unmoved (ask those who listened to the compilation AALP078).Mack-Joss’s retirement in 1996 marked the end of Orchestre Massako. With a four decades spanned career, his contribution to Gabonese culture cannot be overstated and continues to inspire the respect and devotion of people who knew him. "

Voici le nouvel album d’Admiral Fallow attendu depuis six ans !Composé et principalement enregistré en 2019, The Idea Of You est une collection captivante de nouveaux titres très mélodiques, produits avec beaucoup de soin et de raffinement par le groupe écossais créé en 2007.La chaleur, l'empathie et le sentiment de joie irradient au travers des neuf chansons, entre blue eyed soul de Philadelphie, pop sophistiquée et rock débridée, avec des refrains qui sonnent comme des hymnes.