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NZE NZE

Three-headed entity shaped at a Red Bull Music Academy back in 2021 by Matthieu Ruben N'Dongo (Sacred Lodge) and Tioma Tchoulanov and Gaëtan Bizien (UVB76). Their debut album, ‘Adzi Akal’, released last year through Teenage Menopause Records, bridges the warrior songs of the Fang people in Central Africa - imprinted on N’Dongo’s genetic legacy - and the industrial and post-punk strategies these musicians usually employ in a music that feels possessed. Ancestral and future spirits in a collision course, invoked from trancey polyrhythms, reverberating textures from within a deep well, faraway echoes and a voice that embodies these ghosts through murmurs and shrieks. An outcry both fierce and ecstatic. [NZE NZE are an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union] Photo: Antoine Henault