Coup Fatal

by Serge Kakudji, Fabrizio Cassol, Rodriguez Vangama

Overview

And now for something completely different! Words don't do it justice, but...what you have here are (mostly) familiar Baroque vocal pieces, sung by a Congolese countertenor, Serge Kakudji, and accompanied by a battery of Congolese percussion and electric guitar. The African players are from Kinshasa, and the music is mostly in the soukous style, derived partly from Latin American rumba. There are a couple of original pieces, and in live performance the music would be accompanied by dancers. Just to top it all off, there are some syllable vocal harmonies that sound as though they could have come off 1960s lounge recordings. When it comes to cross-cultural fusions, this is hard to outdo. The idea was apparently the brainchild not of Kakudji but of Belgian composer and jazz saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, who has traveled extensively in Africa. Sometimes the Baroque pieces lie right on the surface, and sometime they're buried more deeply; you may enjoy playing a few for friends and seeing whether they can identify the source material. What makes this all so extraordinary is that there is absolutely nothing of pat pastiche about it, or even of experiment. The music sounds as though it's the most natural thing in the world, as though people had been mixing these elements for decades, and it has the kind of swing that comes only from true enjoyment on the part of the players. A real triumph. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	01/27/2015
Label:	OUTHERE
UPC:	5400439006560

Tracks

1. Toccata (after Monteverdi)
2. Presti omai (after Handel)
3. Vedro (after Vivaldi)
4. Prelude (after Bach)
5. Domer¿¿ (after Handel)
6. Stille amare (after Handel)
7. Ekunda
8. Barbaro (after Vivaldi)
9. Che faro (after Gluck)
10. Syst¿¿me de jeu
11. Lascia (after Handel)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Serge Kakudji   Primary Artist,Counter Tenor (Vocal)
Fabrizio Cassol   Primary Artist,Musical Direction
Rodriguez Vangama   Primary Artist,Balafon,Conductor,Guitar (Electric)
Angou Ingutu   Bass (Electric)
Deb's Bukaka   Balafon,Percussion
Mitch Mpanya   Vocals (Background)
Russell Tshiebua   Vocals (Background)
Silva Makengo   Likembe
Tister Ikomo   Xylophone,Percussion
Alain Platel   Staging
36 Seke   Calabash
Cedrick Buya   Ngoma
Costa Pinto   Guitar (Acoustic)
Coup Fatal   Vocal Ensemble
Erick Nguya   Likembe

Technical Credits

Johann Sebastian Bach   Original Material
Antonio Vivaldi   Original Material
George Frederick Handel   Original Material
Claudio Monteverdi   Original Material
Fabrizio Cassol   Mixing,Composer
Christoph Willibald Gluck   Original Material
Benjamin Joubert   Mastering
John Tyler Tuttle   Liner Note Translation
Chris Van der Burght   Photography
Deb's Bukaka   Composer
Robin Yerles   Photography
Willemjan Vandenplas   Photography
Rodriguez Vangama   Composer
Dominic Verheyen   Executive Producer
Pierre Dozin   Recording Assistant
Julien Lapiece   Executive Producer
Michael Andina   Mixing,Engineer