A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
ABOUT
Initiated by the musician Patrick Mundélé and the dancer Mama Cécilia, the PKE collective gathers a dozen artists (from France, Congo, Togo, Japan), old wolves of the Congolese scene or from the new generation. Revisiting the music of the Congo Basin, these explorers/fun makers agree to make sound in harmony a modern and mixed rumba whose lyrics mingle mockery and seriousness, in French and Lingala. The result needs to be listened to with the intelligence of the heart and invites everybody to dance! Beware, it may shake a little...
"It's an amazing Africa, the one that is carried by the Paris Kinshasa Express. Without a doubt, an Africa linked to childhood, mixing, shared originality, shared origin. An Africa of energies, an Africa of colors. Singing, dancing, fighting Congo. Because in our phones and computers lies a harvested precious land in Congo, but did we know that? Because the whole world owes most of their dances and rhythms to Congo, but did we know that? And simply because music drives us, even if we can't see it, but it takes us by the legs and the bottom and we sweat, they call that Melomania."
Marc Verhaverbeke, writer
"It's an amazing Africa, the one that is carried by the Paris Kinshasa Express. Without a doubt, an Africa linked to childhood, mixing, shared originality, shared origin. An Africa of energies, an Africa of colors. Singing, dancing, fighting Congo. Because in our phones and computers lies a harvested precious land in Congo, but did we know that? Because the whole world owes most of their dances and rhythms to Congo, but did we know that? And simply because music drives us, even if we can't see it, but it takes us by the legs and the bottom and we sweat, they call that Melomania."
Marc Verhaverbeke, writer
