Afrobeat band, Fanga, are from Montpellier in France and they've released a couple of albums in recent years on which Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen lends his funky touch to a couple of cuts, most impressively on Crache La Douleur which is pretty much the best dance record out there at the moment. In the Afrobeat cannon it stands shoulder to shoulder with Fela's Everything Scatter as a record that can really ignite a dancefloor with its incredible horns that Tunde Williams would be proud of and its Yoruba call and response lyrics. Fanga apparently means 'Force' in West African dialect Dioula and as a band they 'denounce the inequality created by the quest for profit and embraces the re-integration of humanity and earth'. They're a band that I would love to see and a group that all of you should get into immediately. Feel the horns.
Fanga feat. Tony Allen - Crache La Douleur
Here they are performing live on French television, which is ace.
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