2024-06-21 15:02:29
In 2017, the Rwandan musician Jali made Imani Assumani, then residing in Kinshasa, hearken to the primary items of actress Stéfi Celma. “ One, two, three, 4 on the finish of the fifth, I stated: it is okay, I am coming once more to Europe! I modified nations for his voice, says Imani, I used to be touched to the guts. » For her half, Stéfi hears Imani via the identical good friend, Jali: “ I hear his voice, she explains, and I instantly ask him the place he’s, if I can see him… » They met within the studio on August 14, 2017. Three years later, they based the Moyo label, on which their very own tracks have been launched, together with Imani’s newest EP, Decibel, and co-produce the Kinshasa group MPR. Very imbued with the spontaneous, effervescent and impressive power of the Congolese capital, the couple, with completely different musical inspirations (hip-hop for him, Latin folks for her), affect one another, as on the track Stéfi Celma, “Southern Wind”, the place lightness and softness hover. A gathering stuffed with rhythm.
In 2017 you have been each collaborating with main labels. Was it the necessity for freedom that gave you the impetus to create Moyo collectively?
Imani : We wished to construction ourselves, to assist our personal initiatives on a creative and administrative stage, but additionally for different artists. One among our best prides is to have related Claire Prunier, Guetta’s lawyer, with an rising group in Kinshasa which was to signal with Common, MPR.
The items that you just every launch individually are all the time created collectively?
Stéfi: Subsequent to Imani’s productions, I put down my guitars, then a textual content arrives…
Imani : The query of who does what not arises. We begin a track, then, as quickly as one in every of us feels snug going, the opposite goes alongside.
There’s a widespread temper between your two musical universes. An proof ?
Stéfi: After I met Imani, I had been searching for a selected sound, a photo voltaic guitar, for some time. That is the sound I used to be searching for!
Imani : It’s the low-mid timbre of his voice, à la Maurane, that I used to be searching for. We each grew up in Africa, the West Indies and Europe, and I acknowledged a mixture that spoke to me: it is neither too Cain-fri, nor too Europe…
Stéfi: I additionally wished to put in writing in another way, to be easy, however to have substance. After I heard his method of writing, I noticed a creative key.
Imani : In Kinshasa, folks communicate French, however you should not take it out of the dictionary. Every part goes quick. You need to be artificial. Moreover, music is a journey. Artwork helps folks escape and discover aid from generally tough circumstances. Not everybody can afford to maneuver to the opposite facet of the world. In order quickly as they choose up their instrument, they shut their eyes, and go into their phrases, their head, their coronary heart. That is why, with the label, we saved a footprint there, as a result of it refocuses us.
Stéfi: Artistically however even personally, going to Kinshasa was decisive in my life.
Votre Love Music ?
Stéfi: Every part from Sam Cooke. We take it in all places.
Imani : And a gem that we’ve got simply found: José Carlos Schwarz!
The track that accompanies the opposite?
Stéfi: “The non-proposal”, by Brassens.
Imani : « Adeline », d’alt-J.
The next ?
Stéfi: Proceed to make music collectively.
Imani : Our dream with Moyo is to create a phonetics college that will permit folks to apply French with the accent they need or the tone they need as a result of generally the tone or accent we use can profit us. or discriminate towards us. Folks ought to have the suitable to decide on.
Par Alexis Lacourte
Images Axel Vanhessche
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