{"id":59067,"date":"2020-09-10T18:09:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=59067"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:00:59","slug":"zazou-bikaye-nostalgie-mr-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/zazou-bikaye-nostalgie-mr-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Zazou Bikaye’s second album to be reissued with unreleased songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following the acclaimed 2017 vinyl reissue of the Noir et Blanc<\/em> album, Crammed Discs announces a special edition<\/strong> of the experimental electronic duo Zazou Bikaye\u2019s second record, Mr. Manager<\/em>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Resulting from a torrid encounter between Congolese singer Bony Bikaye, Algerian-born French composer Hector Zazou and mad scientists CY1, Zazou Bikaye created a head-on collision between traditional Central African vocals and uncompromising analog electronics. The band made history with their debut, cult album Noir et Blanc<\/a><\/em> (1983), a groundbreaking afro\/electronic experiment which has been adulated to this day by generations and often compared to David Byrne & Brian Eno\u2019s Bush Of Ghosts<\/em>, or to an imaginary meeting between Fela Kuti and Kraftwerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With \u201cMr Manager\u201d, their music became less overtly experimental and took on original shades of digital afrobeat\/afrofunk. Mr Manager<\/em> was a 5-track mini-album. Coming out on Oct 16, the expanded edition will comprise no less than 14 tracks, to which \u201cNostalgie\u201d serves as a great introduction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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