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JUNGLE BY NIGHT (nl)
FR – Parce que c’était lui, parce que c’était moi. C’est ainsi que Montaigne (le philosophe, pas l’avenue) définissait son amitié avec La Boétie (le philosophe, pas la rue) et plus généralement toutes les vraies amitiés au monde. Parce que c’était eux, parce que c’était nous. C’est en ces termes qu’on aimerait parler de ce cinquième album des Hollandais de Jungle by Night. Tout simplement parce que Livingstone a tout de l’évidence. Presque tous ses morceaux ont des allures de tube (“Hangmat”, “Pompette”, “Love Boat”) grâce à leurs synthés gonflés à l’hélium – c’est bien connu l’hélium rend tout léger et ludique. Et puis parce que le jeune collectif d’Amsterdam met toute sa science de l’afrobeat pour tenter des séquences plus osées, plus sombres, plus tarbiscotées que par le passé (“Spectacles part 2”, “The Fog”). Livingstone se vit comme un shoot de plaisir pur dans cette période complètement étrange.
EN – After almost a decade of heating up dancefloors across the globe, Jungle by Night
have reached manhood. In the process of creating their 5th album, the nine-headed
collective melted years of passion, friendship, and influences from krautrock, dance,
jazz, afrobeat together into new instrumental prose, fluently speaking the language
of their instruments. The band is an oddball ensemble within its own cosmos. A
danceable and thundering live act that connects with crowds like no other, with
beaming fun and energy along the way.
As an Afrobeat-influenced band, you know you’re onto something when Tony Allen starts singing your praises. Dutch nine-piece Jungle By Night has received plenty of plaudits from the Fela Kuti sticksman over the years, and it’s easy to see why. Although there’s very little straight-up Afrobeat on their latest must-have LP, “Livingstone”, there’s plenty of rasping, Fela-style horns, polyrhythmic grooves, Highlife-esque guitar riffs and vintage synthesizer motifs. Combine these with an impressive range of influences – boogie, jazz, Giallo horror movie soundtracks, jazz-funk and disco – and the result is a wonderfully expansive, impeccably played and produced set of tracks that entertain and inspire in equal measure. They might be hard to pin-down, but the Amsterdam band is at least consistent: consistently good, that is.
