Friday, February 24, 2023

XII Alfonso - Djenné (2016)

The seventh and so far last album from this band from France.

The band was now a duo with a lineup of bass, xylophone, percussion, guitars, synths, keyboards, samples, computers and vocals.

The duo had got help from female vocalists and some other guests.

Phillipe and Francois Claerhot lost the third member of the band, the drummer Thierry Moreno, after they had finished their previous album Charles Darwin. 

I guess they lost the drive to create big and complex music.

Djenne sees the band reverting to more of a folk progressive rock band.

There is a lot of African music here. Well, this is album is a seventy minutes long album full of African - Arabic folk music meeting up with symphonic prog.

There is some tribal music here and there is some French symphonic prog influenced music here. There is a lot of female and male vocals here too.

The result is a decent album and one to check out. 

2 points

 

 

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