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████ YEAR....[ 2012 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Full Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 41:14 min REL.DATE[ 05.04.2012 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 12 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Poet of the Soul 03:30 ████
████ 02 My Heart Is Jumping 03:50 ████
████ 03 Banda a Gui Koua 03:37 ████
████ 04 Can't Handle This 03:56 ████
████ 05 Laughing Song 03:38 ████
████ 06 Kangoya 03:03 ████
████ 07 Do What You Wanna Do 03:31 ████
████ 08 Dark Funk 04:02 ████
████ 09 Happy Dustman 05:00 ████
████ 10 People Are Working 02:26 ████
████ 11 40║ of Sunshine 02:52 ████
████ 12 Attraction 01:49 ████
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████ Parisian groove theorists Bibi Tanga and The ████
████ Selenites return in 2012 with 40 ░ of ████
████ Sunshine, their second release for the Nat Geo ████
████ Music label. Due out on late spring 2012, 40 ░ ████
████ of Sunshine was recorded in the studio after a ████
████ two month African tour, and itÆs the groupÆs ████
████ most warm, relaxed and deeply poetic recording ████
████ yet. ████
████ ████
████ ôThe whole band was in a more sunny and happy ████
████ place for the recording of this album,ö says ████
████ frontman/bandleader Bienvenu (Bibi) Tanga, ████
████ ôwhich took place after an African tour that ████
████ brought us to 12 hot countries. Our ████
████ relationships as musicians and as friends were ████
████ reinforced by this long tour, and the album is ████
████ more sunny than the previous ones. On the ████
████ first two albums, the moon was our central ████
████ symbol figure, this time itÆs the sunö. ████
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████ The albumÆs title track, ô40 ░ of Sunshineö, ████
████ was also inspired by this experience, as Bibi ████
████ explains: ô40 ░ of Sunshine takes some poetic ████
████ license. ItÆs a story that imagines what would ████
████ happen if alcohol were replaced by liquid ████
████ sunshine; 40 ounces of bottled sunshineö. ████
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████ ItÆs been two years since the world was ████
████ introduced to Bibi and Selenites on Dunya, ████
████ their 2010 release for Nat Geo Music, but the ████
████ groupÆs unique retro-futurist vision and ████
████ smooth, Afro-Parisian sound remain intact on ████
████ 40 Degrees of Sunshine. And their longtime ████
████ producer and collaborator, le Professeur ████
████ Inlassable, was once again at the controls in ████
████ his studio near the banks of the Seine on the ████
████ left bank of Paris, polishing the groupÆs ████
████ sound to a luxurious sheen. ████
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████ For those who missed out on Bibi TangaÆs ████
████ international debut, hereÆs the recap: Born in ████
████ Bangui in 1969,the dusty capital of the ████
████ Central African Republic, Bienvenu (Bibi) ████
████ Tanga didnÆt see his homeland until the age of ████
████ 2, when his parents brought him back from ████
████ Paris where they moved just after he was born. ████
████ Growing up, Bibi was one of 7 children and ████
████ spent his earliest years shuttling from Paris ████
████ to Africa to Moscow to Washington, D.C., and ████
████ Brooklyn, thanks to his fatherÆs diplomatic ████
████ postings. Eventually BibiÆs family ended up ████
████ living in the suburbs of Paris, where he ████
████ became a musical omnivore û devouring British ████
████ new wave, African pop, and American blues and ████
████ R&B in equal doses. As a teenager, Bibi ████
████ learned guitar, bass and saxophone û and even ████
████ took up tap dancing. ████
████ In 2000 Bibi û by now fronting his own band û ████
████ teamed up with Professeur Inlassable (the ████
████ tireless professor), and never looked back. A ████
████ student of early decades of French popular ████
████ music, Le Professeur adds a whole new ████
████ dimension to Bibi TangaÆs sound, recreating ████
████ lost musical soundscapes that invoke echoes of ████
████ Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. ████
████ Together with BibiÆs band The Selenites û ████
████ Arthur Simonini on violin and keyboards, Rico ████
████ Kerridge on guitar and Arnaud Biscay on drums ████
████ û Bibi and Le Professeur craft an otherworldly ████
████ sound. ████
████ On 40 Degrees of Sunshine the Selenites are ████
████ tighter than ever, and Bibi stresses that ████
████ ôThis record is an even more collective effort ████
████ than the previous oneö stressing that the ████
████ albums songs emerged spontaneously and ████
████ naturally from the bandsÆ informal studio jam ████
████ sessions. ████
████ ████
████ ôThe album was recorded over a few weeks in ████
████ the summer of 2011, during nightly jam ████
████ sessions,ö Bibi explains. ôAll the tracks ████
████ emerged from collective jams based around le ████
████ Professeur InlassableÆs sample techniques. He ████
████ set the mood with his loops and then the band ████
████ joins in to create musical background for me ████
████ to write songs or sing poetry.ö ████
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████ That relaxed, collective approach paid off ████
████ with funky synchronicities and poetic ████
████ couplings on tracks like ôPoet of the Soulö û ████
████ built around a slippery funk groove married to ████
████ lines from poet Walt WhitmanÆs masterpiece ████
████ ôLeaves of Grassö û and ôLaughing Songö û ████
████ based around a poem by canonical English poet ████
████ William Blake. ████
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████ Two of the albumÆs tracks, ôKangoyaö and ████
████ ôBanda a gui kouaö are sung in the Sango ████
████ language of BibiÆs ancestors. Bibi explains ████
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████ Sango, and the song deals with the beverage in ████
████ a positive way, as a social and familial means ████
████ to bring people together. While banda a gui ████
████ koua is the name of a traditional dish of ████
████ greens from Central African Republic. The song ████
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████ ôBanda a gui kouaö also introduces guest ████
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████ the albumÆs tracks. A fellow immigrant to ████
████ France from the Central African Republic, Bibi ████
████ and the band saw Emma singing with an Afrobeat ████
████ band while on tour and a friendship was soon ████
████ forged. ████
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████ One track, ôMy Heart Is Jumping.ö has a darker ████
████ backstory than the rest, as Bibi recounts: ████
████ ôthe track is built around Professeur ████
████ Inlassableæs loops of an obscure 1930s ████
████ recording, which had a woman singing the ████
████ words, æmy heart is jumpingÆ. Two days after ████
████ le Professeur made the loop he had a little ████
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