Lagon Nwar is a thriller.
An investigation of memory, eyes in the puddle,
the sober and liquid blood.
Saxophonist Quentin Biardeau and bassist
Valentin Ceccaldi, both from the flamboyant
Tricollectif, invite us to a meeting with
singer Ann O’aro from Reunion Island and drummer-percussionist-
singer Marcel Balboné from Burkina Faso.
The quartet sketches out the shores on which to land
, in the depths of time.
A tight smile at the corner of their lips.
Electric telescoping, swirling synthesizers
dying on the bitter dregs of a fender bass, lyrics
disengaged arguing its joual as its Creole, signing
with fingers a poetry to defresh the corals of
from which fly the melodies bissa and the raging verve
of a saxophone snatched from the lively race of
wet bimdé.
The battery of calabashes, with or without strings
, underscores the contours of a dialogue between Burkina Faso
and the Mascarene Islands, Paris and Ouaga.
Lagon Nwar is about the salty taste of water, the curls of
weighed down by rain, the port and its armaments,
the exhaustion of the colonies.
Ann O’aro