Name: Lanmou Lanmou
Brand: Dowdelin

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UR836781

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-11

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Kudos

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Dowdelin

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R&B / Neo-Soul

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Underdog Records

Underdog Records is an alternative label based in Paris, France. Founded in 2004, the label has been a driving force in the music industry for over a decade. With a focus on promoting and supporting alternative artists, Underdog Records has become known for its diverse roster of talented musicians.
With a commitment to artistic integrity and innovation, Underdog Records strives to provide a platform for artists to express themselves freely. The label's dedication to quality music has earned them a reputation as one of the leading independent labels in the industry.
Underdog Records continues to push boundaries and challenge conventions, constantly seeking out new talent and pushing their artists to reach new heights. Whether you're looking for groundbreaking sounds or simply want to discover something fresh and exciting, Underdog Records is your go-to destination for alternative music.

No spot in music is immovable. No music can sit still but it's hardly ever as true as it is for Dowdelin, a band that can't be tied down to a single geography and genealogy. The creole language, Caribbean rhythms, urban energies, dazzling virtuosity, sensual electro: The group evolves in a unique place where genres and colors, heritage and audacity can merge.

Lanmou lanmou, Dowdelin's second album, muddies the waters, blurs the lines, bewilders. It does everything to assuage naysayers such as the conservatives and the lazies, the defenders of an official form of reggae, the right kind of zouk, the trademarked version of jazz or the historically validated biguine. As with the languages, culture and nations of the Caribbean which are never quite European nor completely African, it would be daunting to try and define where exactly Dowdelin is located on the official landscape of music in a Creole afro-futurism, at the crossroads of the black Atlantic...

The Dowdelin experiment finds its roots in a blend of encounters and loyalties: David Kiledjian AKA Dawatile, producer and multi-instrumentalist composer met Lyon-born singer from Martinique, Olivya. Together, they would jam and write songs in English. But, nothing felt right, until she started singing in Creole. Then everything made sense : the language of the French Antilles in the West Indies deployed its revolutionary universality.

David then got back in touch with Raphaël Philibert, a percussionist, saxophonist and singer who has always been involved in developing the field of gwo ka, the heavily percussion-based traditional music of Guadeloupe, of which his relative, Georges Troupé, is a pioneering defender. All this gave birth to Dowdelin and the obvious is striking.

We're reminded that when the poet and theoretician Édouard Glissant speaks of Creoleness as a whirlwind of unpredictability, he speaks of an adventure that couldn't be foretold in the world's istory : From Europeans and Africans forced into a third continent with an insane dream to build a New World, languages, cultures, music in other words mixed heritages, catharsis, diziness, resiliance were born through the mass crimes of slavery and the dispoilment of Native American populations.

Lanmou Lanmou

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