I was visiting my friends of the electrosoucous band S.W.A.N. yesterday and I asked them to sing a Brazilian song. Alessandra Oliveira, David Bovée’s wife, is from Brazil. They sang the ’slavesong’ Ensaboa for me.
Ensaboa mulata, ensaboa
Ensaboa
Tô ensaboando
Tô lavando a minha roupa
Là emcasa estao me chamando Dondon
Ensaboa mulata, ensaboa
Ensaboa
Tô ensaboando
Os fio que é meu, que é meu
E que é dela
Rebeta a goela de tanto chorà
O rio tà seco, o sol nao vem nao
Vortemos pra casa
Chamando Dondon
★S.W.A.N. is a Belgian-Congolese electrosensation coming out of Matongué and the swampiest trailer park of the Brussels underground scene, steamy soucous grooves mixed with icy cold synthesizers and distorted guitars. A punkrocker, a congolese soucousmaster, a brazilian funkadora and a belgian synthesizerwizzard started to meet regulary in a left behind trucktrailer turned into a rehearsalstudio . They recorded a single “Rock Del Sol” produced by Dan Lacksman and a full cd is expected next spring. ★S.W.A.N. is David Bovée, Eric Bribosia, Alê Oliveira, Alonzo Nzau and David Picard
★if you want to book them, anywhere in the world, just let me know (oskar lewis)
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