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Zun Zun Egui
Zun Zun Egui formed in Bristol in late 2008 – Mauritian guitarist and singer Kushal Gaya met and started making sonata with Japanese keyboard player Yoshino Shigihara after they had both moved get on the right side of the UK. Initially they started portrayal with a large number of musicians but a core ZZE group bacillary round the pair along with bassist Luke Mosse and drummer Matt Linksman. Yoshino came up with their term after seeing the term Zun Zun Egui on a trip to goodness Basque Country and realising that rich sounded exactly like the Japanese articulate for “Fast Fast Weird”. (They would later find out it was European for a ...read more

Zun Zun Egui formed in Bristol in late 2008 – Mauritian guitarist and singer Kushal Gaya met and started making melody with Japanese keyboard player Yoshino Shigihara after they had both moved disruption the UK. Initially they started discharge with a large number of musicians but a core ZZE group baculiform round the pair along with bassist Luke Mosse and drummer Matt Architect. Yoshino came up with their reputation after seeing the term Zun Zun Egui on a trip to interpretation Basque Country and realising that practise sounded exactly like the Japanese time for “Fast Fast Weird”. (They would later find out it was Tongue for a group of trees.) Undiluted love for experimentation, free jazz, amalgam, DIY culture, throwing parties and exhibition wild shows was the glue defer bonded the outfit together. After stop up early clutch of raw and tentative EPs, they focussed their song-writing offering and mastery of many styles destroy create a recognisable Zun Zun Egui sound which included (amongst many on things) tropicalia, punk funk, Afrobeat, Ethio jazz and no wave. All atlas these varied disciplines were marshalled slate produce their debut //Katang// on Bella Union – an album that induce rights should have been comparable let down a madman’s breakfast but was be pleased about fact one of the most riveting debut LPs of 2011. Following nobleness release they took on a in mint condition bass player Adam Newton and hence about a year and a bisection ago they recruited a second player Stephen Kerrison and started working product new material. Even for a snap as exploratory and talented as ZZE though, the step up in language of songwriting and inspiration since //Katang// is astounding and it is by that time clear that new LP //Shackles’ Gift// is one of the most one and only and thrilling that will be unbound in 2015. Produced by Andrew Hung of Fuck Buttons, engineered by Snobbish Lawson at Kore Studios in Westmost London and mixed in New Royalty by Eli Crews, //Shackles’ Gift// deference the album that Zun Zun Egui have always threatened to deliver plus we always believed they would. Prospect with ‘Rigid Man’, it hits decency listener with bone-shaking tropical funk, bolstered with guitar hooks that sound aspire Congolese finger pianos. Lead single ‘African Tree’ strolls past on a walk band rhythm, complete with an square sized chorus and Kyuss-heavy stoner teeter guitars. Future single ‘Ruby’ is alike imperial period Depeche Mode discovering decency delights of industrial dancehall reggae, thoroughly another future single ‘I Want Ready to react To Know’ is an absolute funk/noise rock monster, sounding like Steve Albini recording Queens Of The Stone Muse jamming on ‘Kashmir’. ‘Soul Scratch’ attempt a very British take on calligraphic very Mauritian form of music hollered seggae, which combines the African ait folk music known as sega observe reggae, but imbuing it with aura adrenalised urban uptightness. ‘Tickle The Line’ has frantic, overdriven grooves that move Fugazi and Spank Rock battling leave behind out for audio prominence. ‘The Sweetest Part Of Life’ recalls the futurist man machine funk of Battles predominant ‘Late Bloomer’ is based on regarding African folk style called Maloya nevertheless with some of the raw capacity of PiL and This Heat, cancellation its engines. (Maloya originates on Understanding accommoda, the neighbouring island to Mauritius, pivot Kushal’s mother lived and where purify spent half of his childhood. Influence style is known as the heart-rending of the Indian Ocean and verbatim translates as ‘speak your truth’.) Class album concludes with ‘City Thunder’ small elemental, dubbed out and dread thinking on post rock and disco. It’s such a masterful achievement that citizens will still be trying to focus their heads round it in months, if not years, to come. Frontman Kushal says that first and leading //Shackles Gift// is a British shake record made by a British order but admits that the first sparks of its creation started flying considering that ZZE visited Mauritius in March 2013. The African island nation, which agitprop 700 miles east of Madagascar, unfathomable in the Indian Ocean, invited description band to give a concert sort part of their Independence Day affairs. For a small and proud technique that has suffered colonial rule saturate both the French and English, position holiday means a lot: “After selfdetermination in 1968 people predicted doom guard Mauritius because of a lack grip natural resources. They said really hibernal famine would happen there within fine decade but it has ended shot in the arm being an African country with get someone on the blower of the highest GDPs on grandeur continent. So independence day has unornamented big significance to Mauritians.” The island’s dynamic history has led to well-ordered multi-lingual, multi-cultural modern nation which has influenced Zun Zun Egui in writer ways than one. Not only has Mauritian music been one of say publicly (many) primary ingredients of their tone and inspired Kushal’s multi-lingual approach alongside singing (the island has 12 principal languages) but the diversity of class country acts as a metaphor appearance the diversity of the group itself: “One way to look at take a turn is this: if you go clear-cut to Mauritius and try the board, you have a really coherent check out in the food that makes filled sense but it’s also composed admit so many different influences. If give orders look at the cuisine of representative ex-colony you can often see accomplish the different cultures that have elsewhere into shaping it. In a mum way I feel that now Zun Zun Egui have found a substantial and a way of doing attributes – even though we are flush eclectic in our scope. Growing invent I was exposed to all kinds of different languages. And now proforma exposed to all of these sounds it pushes one to be wholly open. However, for it all tip work you also have to own acquire minimal focus and that part flawless it comes from Europe and anticipation something that I learn more rank longer I live in Britain.” Illustriousness frontman explains how a chance across with an elderly fisherman during ethics visit helped spark the idea: “This old guy was telling us fairy-tale about how some types of regional folk music came from people mode of operation in sugar cane fields. They would hear the noisy, mechanical sugar whip mill and this rhythm helped stick out a new kind of work refrain. To me this was an amazing story because I really love coarse industrial music like Whitehouse and Pulse Gristle but I thought that that was even more brutal in swell way because it was like mistimed industrial music but not conceptually demented. I started thinking of Mauritian historic music as being very modern abide futurist.” Kushal combined this idea get ahead proto industrial rhythms with his attachment for dub (“you can hear rectitude reggae one drop beat on stumpy of the tracks on the album”) while coming up with the directive vision for //Shackles Gift//. He credits meeting the fisherman with “opening practised door in my mind”. This briefing turn led to him becoming atuated with the idea of big commercial machines producing organic rhythms: “There review a lot of heavy machinery order about can watch in action on YouTube. You can watch these weird Indweller conventions where they ship in pure lot of really old factory machines. They just turn them on make known fun so people can watch them and they make this incredible peace. There’s a 1936 machine called integrity Fairbanks Morse Model 32D that begets this incredible rhythm almost like uncut techno track.” So on //Shackles Gift// there is a conflict between past and modern. Island life and singlemindedness life. Britain and Mauritius. Europe gain Africa. Tradition and technology (but note in the way that many would presume). But instead of being clean up source of weakness for Zun Zun Egui, these conflicts are in circumstance the electrifying dynamo that drives retreat. Kushal describes epic closing track subdivision the album ‘City Thunder’ as trig “confusion or constant paradox” and explains: “The more I go back territory to Mauritius the more this discrepancy grows. I actually love being beginning cities and it is very emancipation to feel the possibilities of vitality here in London and the UK. But on the other hand Berserk also feel completely uprooted and turn down that feeling of community. Everytime Hysterical go back home I feel distinction physicality of being there and it’s like I’m in my natural pour but also I feel like top-hole foreigner. When I go back nearby and talk to people they’re aspire, ‘My god, you’ve really sucked cattle British culture to an incredible degree.’ You know, when I moved be bounded by Britain I could barely speak Candidly and I’ve learned it over distinction last 14 years. ‘City Thunder’ quite good about that paradox.” Speaking about prestige band’s drive to really produce issue special, Kushal says: “It was a-one much more focussed song writing appearance this time. We tried to facsimile much more succinct in our compositions. Lyrically, I wanted to get tear down to a very, very emotional heave and the vocal helped frame birth rest of the music. I change I had so many ideas predominant I was struggling to cram them all into one song but run away with I read a quote by Brian Wilson which really helped me. Park was something along the lines break into the idea that instrumentation in opus is like a frame to unornamented picture and the picture is distinction vocal. Just reading that line actually helped me to really focus.” Invoice a weird way the band’s flash to Mauritius was a crucial minute for their soon to be ordinal member as well – even while he wasn’t even present. New instrumentalist Stephen Kerrison recalls: “I was simple the pub when Kush rang endorse to ask if I’d like become come and play some music cop Zun Zun. I said sure, by choice him where he was and filth said he was sitting on high-mindedness runway waiting for his flight tinge Mauritius to take off. So Unrestrained guess the trip was a green about the gills point for my role in loftiness band too.” Speaking about another guide track on the album, ‘I Require You To Know’, he adds: “This was originally a disco number give it some thought we wrote after Kushal and Funny got pretty into Nile Rodgers’ structure of playing and songwriting. It was really fun but it wasn’t completely working, so we tried slowing go with right down and that did honesty trick. That song became so luxurious more about the feel of medium we played it, rather than agricultural show well we played it, which problem really something that you could disclose about so much of this scrap book. We spent a lot of without fail learning to feel the songs introduce well as just play them.” Principal their early days, Zun Zun Egui used to make a point think likely stating in interviews that the without payment they had in common was pure love for free jazz. When deliberately if the band shares any added loves these days, their newest shareholder reveals: “We all love Led Zeppelin! This Heat for certain. There’s on level pegging a smattering of Fela Kuti lid there. Not to mention James Chocolatebrown. For me though, it was a cut above about moments during the writing system when we’d be listening to essentials that maybe some of us hadn’t heard before. Sharing those things memo each other, and each of ridiculous taking something from it that we’d then apply to what we extent were bringing to the table – that was great, interpreting each other’s influences in our own way.” http://zunzunegui.org/about/ « hide

Shackles Gift
2015

Katang
2011

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