NDOX ÉLECTRIQUE - Tëd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang (English)

NDOX ÉLECTRIQUE Tëd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang Adorcist & Post-Industrial Ritual. Spirits, Possession & Trance . Senegal . World music in the West is most often formatted & presented as fancy & innocent postcards : the sun, the dunes, the smiles, the welcome, the attaya or the ceebu jën offered to the lovely toubabs, etc. However the music of the cruel, wild, frenzied, real and even bloodthirsty worlds betrays that postcard presentation. To make a pact or cast out the demons as during the N’döep ceremonies among the Lebous of Senegal, it will take much more than good intentions but a huge volume to reach the elevation of the trance and it will take sweat and blood to sanctify the action and to satisfy the spirits. Ceremonies of incredible loudness and musical violence for a spirituality coupled with a magnificent and imperious social role during rituals where Western griots like Meshuggah or The Birthday Party would only b