MIDNIGHT RAVERS - "Le Triomphe du chaos"
3-part digifile CD – Double gatefold Vinyl + 25-page booklet
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4 unpublished remixs on digital version (free with CD or Vinyl order)
originally released The 3rd of October, 2013 on Irfan le Label
Reissue the 28th May, 2021 on Blanc Manioc / Bacomusic / Idol
High Tone's drummer gets his great escape with a first and surprising solo album. A sound bulimic, DJ, producer, and in this case globe trotter, he's headed to an unexpected direction, rhyming tradition and modernity, travels and drawings, solo project and collective adventure!
After a first trip to Mali in 2010, Dominique Peter, gives birth to the MIDNIGHT RAVERS project. Always hungry for sounds, vinyls and news sounds, he's also a dub and electro music producer, and his influences in Malian music are numerous : Boubacar Traoré, Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, just to name a few.
This is a project with a taste of adventure, a meeting between music and sketches, tradition and modernity, voodoo and technology... Cartoonist Emmanuel Prost joined him in Bamako, Mali, in March 2012 and produced a studio and travel diary, thus becoming an invaluable witness and Dominique Peter's counterpart in Midnight Ravers.
Apart from the various encounters with Malian musicians during studio sessions, they each picked up in their own personal way the intensity and musical glow that lie in the capital city, and it is in Manjul's now inevitable “Humble Ark Studio” in Baco Djicoroni that everybody met and that the recording sessions began.
The machine was on, day in and day out. The musicians Manjul and Assaba Dramé counted on to work on this album all showed up and got in line behind the microphones. Manu drew quickly and with much talent ! His genius-like strokes created a certain emulation in the yard and in the enclosure of the Humble Ark, often replacing words. The encounters were intense and exciting. Samba Diabaté laid guitar parts on the most complete compositions. A rehearsal with singer Fatim Kouyaté was arranged. The process was set in motion. Toumani Diabaté's inner circle was invited for an explosive session. Fodé Kouyaté and Lamine Tounkara recorded drums and dumdums. Assaba Dramé played N'goni, and his favourite percussion, very common in Western Africa, the “tama”. Cheik Diallo played flute, and of course there was the immense privilege of meeting and recording Madou “Sidiki” Diabaté on the kora. Madou is the youngest son of Sidiki Diabaté, the “king of the kora”, and the brother of Toumani Diabaté. (Madou started playing the kora at age 3 and now belongs to the seventy-first generation of kora players in his family).
The encounters kept happening, Manu's drawings kept piling up... Rokia Traoré's young backing vocalist, the luminous Fatim Kouyaté eventually recorded two songs : a melancholic ballad and the red-hot track of the album : Night Life Ravers, on which almost all musicians played !
On “Musical Stampede”, the talented Cheick Sirima calls for the reunification of Mali. Of course, multi-instrumentist Manjul recorded bass and some percussion, always on both sides of the mixing desk...
Back in Lyon, Dominique Peter started a long work of writing, arranging and electronic fiddling and became a sorcerer of sound, by mixing the record, finally completing this malian chapter. The record was ready by the end of 2012. Meanwhile Emmanuel Prost had produced several large-framed paintings. The idea of conceiving a “sound itinerant exhibition” to introduce MIDNIGHT RAVERS got in their heads.
It represents no less than 50 plates, original drawings, large-framed paintings, travel diary but also studio diary, all put together in order to discover this adventure, Bamako and many of the city's musicians, which will be presented in Paris and in the rest of France to testify of this non-standard human adventure.
"Le Triomphe du chaos" / Tracklist
01° Mind is confused / feat. Shanti D & Samba Diabaté
02° Musical stamped / feat. Cheick Sirima
03° Same pollution / feat. Bernard Pelmoine, Cheick Diallo
04° Don't let me down / feat. Fatim Koutayé
05° Smoky place / feat. Soungallo Diarra
06° Night live ravers / feat. The Bamako All Stars
07° Ride on / feat. Madou “Sidiki” Diabaté
08° Le triomphe du chaos / feat. Assaba Dramé
+ ONLY DIGITAL ( free with Cd or vinyl order)
09° Mind is confused (Antibypass Remix)
10° River (Chinese Man Remix)
11° Don't let me down remix feat Vincent Segal
12°Mind is dub (Antibypass Remix)
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SINGLE CLIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=53uEPkUxvTM
released May 28, 2021
