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Around Félicité - Kasai Allstars & Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste / Music from & around the soundtrack of the motion picture Felicite, directed by Alain Gomis / Crammed Discs Audio CD 2017 / cram273
UPC 876623007746
Product Details:
Editorial Reviews:
Crammed Discs presents the soundtrack album of Alain Gomis' film Flicit (Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival), performed by the inspiration of the movie, the Congolese collective the Kasai Allstars. Includes bonus remixes from the likes of Clap! Clap!, Daedelus and Africaine 808. Deeply impressed by the music of Kasai Allstars, French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis drew inspiration from their music, and from the voice and character of their singer Muambuyi to write and direct his new fiction movie, entitled 'Flicit'. The film's eponymous protagonist is a proud, free-willed woman who sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa to save her son. Her profession: singer with the Kasai Allstars! The band wrote and performed most of the soundtrack, and appears onscreen playing their own part. Muambuyi's voice is omnipresent, and is being heard every time Flicit (played by Congolese actress Vero Tshanda) sings in the bars of Kinshasa, backed by Kasai Allstars. The 'Around Flicit' album includes the film's main pieces, performed by Kasai Allstars and by the Kinshasa Symphonic Orchestra (who specially arranged three works by Estonian composer Arvo Prt), alongside new tracks by Kasai Allstars, as well as interludes consisting of fragments of dialogues and sound bites taken from the soundtrack. 'Around Flicit' comes with a companion piece: 'Flicit Remixes', a collection of ten remixes of Kasai Allstars tracks by electronic music producers from Europe, North America and Africa, including reworks by Clap! Clap!, Daedelus and Africaine 808. 'Flicit Remixes' is available as a bonus disc included in the CD version of the album, as well as a separate digital album available on all streaming and download platforms. 'Around Flicit' also comes out as a vinyl double-LP including the album plus five of the remixes.
Tracklist:
| Around Félicité | |||
| 1 | –Kasai Allstars | Tshalemba | |
| 2 | –Kasai Allstars | In Praise of Homeboys | |
| 3 | –Kasai Allstars | Kapinga Yamba | |
| 4 | –Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste | Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: O Immanuel
Written-By – Arvo Pärt |
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| 5 | –Kasai Allstars | Lobelela | |
| 6 | –Kasai Allstars | Tshitua Fuila Mbuloba | |
| 7 | –Kasai Allstars | Bilonde | |
| 8 | –Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste | My Heart's in Highlands
Written-By – Arvo Pärt |
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| 9 | –Kasai Allstars | Mabela | |
| 10 |
–Kasai Allstars | Quick as White | |
| 11 | –Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste | Fratres
Written-By – Arvo Pärt |
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About the Artist:
Kasai Allstars are a 25-piece musical collective based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The musicians originally come from five bands, all from the Kasai region, but originating from five different ethnic groups: the Songye, Lulua, Tetela, Luba, and Luntu. Some of these groups have endured conflicting relationships over the centuries, they each have their own culture, their own language and their own musical traditions, which were always thought to be incompatible until these musicians decided to pool their resources and form a "superband", at the instigation of Belgian producer Vincent Kenis
