NZE NZE

NZE NZE is the fusion of artists Matthieu Ruben N'Dongo (Sacred Lodge) and Tioma Tchoulanov (UVB76). Initiated as a collaboration by the Astropolis festival in 2020, a residency in the Parisian studios of Red Bull Music Academy will follow in early 2021, and the construction of a story told in the manner of an epic, and intertwined around the warrior songs of the Fang people of Central Africa (from which Matthieu Ruben N'Dongo's father comes) and the codes of industrial, post-punk and dub music dear to the two musicians. A filiation carried loud and clear by the singer of NZE NZE who draws from this geographical separation, due to the political context in Equatorial Guinea, a determining source of inspiration for this musical project. Real facts and imaginary counter-narrative collide to suggest a dystopian future and to underline with rage the ethical and economic problems of the meanders of the colonialist past. The sung texts are embodied because they are inherited and considered. Declaimed in Fang language, it's a dialogue through the belly, the guts, the breath drawn from the depths of the being and its abysses. A magnetic music, seat of spirits, dreams, terrors, instincts. The reflection of an unbridled afro-futurism which puts the foot on the gas pedal of shameless sonorities.