Cyril Cyril’s Future Doesn’t Work
Yay – the monumental Cyril Cyril have a new album out! It’s called “Le Futur Ça Marche Pas” and came out on 28 April 2024 via Bongo Joe Records.
Cyril Cyril are called thus because the band consists mostly of the two Cyrils, Yeterian and Bondi. CY plays accordion, banjo and myriad other instruments; CB adds drums and an array of unorthodox tools of percussion. CY is also the founder and director of Bongo Joe Records and the Bongo Joe record shop; CB is a producer and runs his own studio and label, Insub. Both have been an integral part of Geneva’s flourishing music scene ever since the liberal local council allowed an underground squatting community of artists to thrive in the 1980s and 1990s. Hence the not very optimistic title of this, their third album. “Neither of these guys were born yesterday”, explains their promo blurb. “They remember the 90s, and how it promised better living through science and technology. Yep, we all got sold a dud.”
Part musical globetrotters with a penchant for desert blues, part absurdist magpies with a liking of cartoon humour and a sardonic take on modern socio-politics, Cyril Cyril have once again expanded their already pretty broad horizons. First off, Yeterian’s banjo has been linked up with a switchboard of electronic effects, including a pedal christened “The Cyrilator”. Also, they have enlisted the help of several friends and members of the expanded Bongo Joe musical family. These include Carlos Quebrada from Argentinian experimental band Blanco Teta who mixed the album, Blanco Teta colleague Violeta Garcia who added cello to the title track, vocalist Elbis Alvarez from Colombian band Meridian Brothers as well as Gilles Poizat and Benoit Giffard from Geneva’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp with their flugelhorn and trombone. In short: nothing has changed – Cyril Cyril are still the maddest and badest band around.
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