{"id":96863,"date":"2022-01-17T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=96863"},"modified":"2022-01-17T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:37:16","slug":"la-roche-liye-liye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/la-roche-liye-liye\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC\u2019s La Roche set to drop solo debut via Nyege Nyege Tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Released via the electric Ugandan label, the Fulu Miziki producer\u2019s project will be \u201c<em>firmly rooted in Congolese traditional sounds<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>de-materialized into distant lands<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>La Roche\u2019s upcoming project has the objective of painting \u201c<em>a vivid, pineal tickling four dimensional picture of Congolese culture in 2022<\/em>\u201d. To do so, the producer immersed himself in traditional sounds and electronic music, while also using street noises from the bustling Kinshasa megalopolis (\u201c<em>digital watch alarms, car horns, gunshots, screams<\/em>\u201d), refashioning this mix into completely out of time tracks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1636976199\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com\/album\/liye-liye\">Liye Liye by La Roche<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The title track, already available, is built around \u201c<em>an emotional chant of \u2018liye, liye\u2019 that drifts around a glacial electronic beat that sounds like DJ Screw making day zero grime, all 909 percussion and shattering glass<\/em>\u201d. Eight other tracks will follow, all deeply rooted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/fulu-miziki-2\/\">Fulu Miziki<\/a>\u2019s philosophy: grabbing ideas from the DRC\u2019s opulent musical history and from Kinshasa\u2019s energizing hustle to produce hypnotic and hybrid electronic bangers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com\/album\/liye-liye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Liye Liye<\/em><\/a> by La Roche, out on February 21 via <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/nyege-nyege\/\">Nyege Nyege<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/la-roche-liye-liye.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released via the electric Ugandan label, the Fulu Miziki producer\u2019s project will be \u201cfirmly rooted in Congolese traditional sounds\u201d and \u201cde-materialized into distant lands\u201d.\u00a0 La Roche\u2019s upcoming project has the objective of painting \u201ca vivid, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4096,40726,23843],"location":[7934],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,9178,8414,8402,10910,39559,8400],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96863"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=96863"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=96863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}