Kasai Allstars & Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste - Around Félicité (Crammed Discs)
Add Date: 05/09
OST Focus Track: 5
Remix Focus Tracks: 3, 6
FCC: Clean
Formats: College, Electronic, World
Artist Info: Crammed Discs are delighted to present the soundtrack album from Alain Gomis’ film Félicité (Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival).
The band wrote and performed most of the soundtrack, and appears onscreen playing their own part. Muambuyi’s voice is omnipresent, and is being heard everytime Félicité (played by Congolese actress Vero Tshanda) sings in the bars of Kinshasa, backed by Kasai Allstars.
The Around Félicité album includes the film’s main pieces, performed by Kasai Allstars and by the Kinshasa Symphonic Orchestra (who specially arranged three works by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt), alongside new tracks by Kasai Allstars, as well as interludes consisting of fragments of dialogues and sound bites taken from the soundtrack.
Around Félicité comes with a companion piece: Félicité Remixes, a collection of 10 remixes of KasaiAllstars tracks by electronic music producers from Europe, North America and Africa, including reworks by Clap! Clap!, Daedelus and Africaine 808.