The new signature Heavenly Sweetness !
The new album of Bonbon Vodou (Oriane Lacaille & Jeremie Boucris)
produced by Piers Facini & Jean Lamont (Noir Désir, Bashung, Salif Keita...)
Recorded between France and the volcanic island, beaten by the air of the
Indian Ocean, the album, in the words as in the notes, transforms the French
song into Creole succulence.
He promise of the delights of sugar and the fear of the occult spice. The
contrast is pronounced, like Bonbon Vodou ...
Bonbon Vodou is Oriane Lacaille and JereM, two perfumes that complement
each other to make one. She comes from a family of musicians from Reunion,
he is the son of... Lacanian psychiatrists. From France to Canada, via Reunion
Island, the duo has given more than 150 concerts in three years. Le Bonbon
Vodou is a candy which, from the first contact with the auditory papillae,
makes you feel the pulsations of its rhythmic purity and yet penetrating.
Tin box and hi-hat in plastic bag, on its drum kit in unique copy, Oriane
worked it; with its guitar in the body of oil can, JereM finely covered it with
melodies.
Stories with two voices, which combine, sparkle and explode. Poems, sarcasm,
emotions. A joyful nostalgia, a festive sadness, like the marine cemetery of the
bay of Saint-Paul, Reunion Island.
The squares of earth covered with multicolored flowers have replaced the
stone steles. Supposedly dark, the place is teeming with life ready to be reborn
again and again. A way of celebrating the end as a beginning, of laughing in
sadness.
Sketched to its center, it is there that the Bonbon Vodou leads. In this field of
eternal rest, the starting point of this second album
On the spot, it is surrounded by musical figures of the island that the duet
offered itself of the gustatory subtleties of the sega and the mayola. The
accordion notes of René Lacaille, Oriane"s father, the voice of Danyèl Waro.
But also percussions - the kayamb of course! - and, in the local tradition, the
breath of brass bands.
With Piers Faccini producing several tracks, Jean Lamoot (Noir Désir, Bashung,
Salif Keita...) did the decisive work of recording and mixing that gives Bonbon
Vodou its definitive flavor, its melting and its crunchiness, its sweetness and
its acidity.
Recorded between France and the volcanic island, beaten by the air of the
Indian Ocean, the album, in words as in notes, transforms the French song into
Creole succulence.
In this Cimetière Créole, Bonbon Vodou invokes occult deities, dances with
them, travels, celebrates life and the present moment, gorged with the sugar
that sweetens the most bitter moments.
Because, even with one foot in the grave, you can dance with the other.
