Pekodjinn Taping the Street
Tunisian-born producer Pekodjinn follows up his mind-bending debut LP, “Dharba” (2023) with another salvo of percussive dynamite, “TN TAPE”. The album is out now via Geneva’s habitually groundbreaking Bongo Joe label in cooperation with Les Disques Magnétiques. “Constantly searching, Pekodjinn spends hours tweaking his machines in his small home studio, driving his roommates carazy”, it […]
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 […]
Leoni Leoni Celebrates Her Debut Album
3 June 2022 sees the release of “Leoni Leoni”, the debut album proper – after four long-playing cassettes! – of the Bernese artist, Leoni Leoni, via the super-trusty folks at Les Disques Bongo Joe. Leoni Leoni – aka New York New York – hadn’t even reached her teenage years when she began to experiment with […]
Tout Bleu Enjoying Their “Otium”
“Otium” means “leisure time”. It is a strange choice of title for an album by one of the most restless and multi-tasking musicians in Geneva! Tout Bleu began as a solo project by Simone Aubert who, apart from many other things, is also the guitarist in Massicot and the singing drummer in Hyperculte. On this, […]
Amami Make the “Soleil” Shine
20 August 2021 saw the release of long-awaited debut album by Genevan trio AMAMI via Bongo Joe Records. For anyone following either AMAMI, the band, or Bongo Joe, the label, it won’t come as a surprise that “Soleil” is a marvellous bundle of culture- and continent-fusing energy, driven by a splendidly idiosyncratic approach to music […]
Cyril Cyril, Let’s Go Go!
The mighty Cyril Cyril have a new album out. It’s called “Yallah Mickey Mouse”, meaning “Let’s go, Mickey Mouse”! It is released on 16 October on Bongo Joe Records/Born Bad. Cyril Cyril are so called because the band consists simply and solely of two Cyrils. One, surname Yeterian, plays accordion, banjo and myriad other instruments. […]
L’Eclair Keep on Grooving
A heady mixture of Joe Meek, Fela Kuti and the whole of Jamaican dub history, with a hint of Bert Kaempfert and the Shadows thrown in, Geneva-based six-piece L’Eclair likes “to have it the groovy way”, as their press release puts it. Their jazz-inflected instrumentals might possibly raise the suspicion they were flirting with cheesy […]
L’Eclair release dinosaur
Sauropoda are a type of dinosaur with a very long neck and a very small head. “Sauropoda” is also the title of L’Eclair’s new album. It’s their third. “Think of it as a 2am youtube find. Or that weird looking soviet prog funk LP reissue you never dared to buy,” they write on their Facebook […]
Hyperculte are massively occidental
Geneva-based Hyperculte are double-bassist Vincent Bertholet (also the pilot of the beautifully anarchic “big band” Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp) and drummer/guitarist/singer Simone Aubert (also with Tout Bleu and Massicot). Three years after their stunning debut follows their next strike, an equally gripping second album entitled “Massif Occidental”. Hyperculte make brilliant records. They also offer […]
Cyril Cyril album album
Another special band name – another easy explanation: Cyril Cyril are a duo consisting of two Cyrils. Cyril Yeterian plays accordion, banjo and myriad other instruments, and Cyril Bondi is an extraordinary drummer/percussionist with an experimental bent whose other bands include the wonderful Plaistow. Describing themselves as “muezzin without frontiers”, they are fuelled by an […]
