Big Words, by Alpacas Collective

Big Words

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1.	Gunkali 05:15	info	buy track
2.	Boyoma 04:49	info	buy track
3.	Big Words 10:01	lyrics	buy track
Lyrics by Robby Swiggers People! Let me ask you this: how come big words make you feel so small? Big words at every hour, trying to sell banality as pure necessity. Big words by those in those in power, masking greed and ambition as deeds for the progress of humanity. Covering up lies won’t make them smaller. All your claims are empty and hollow. Covering up lies will only make us smarter, so you won’t fool us tomorrow.
4.	Movéfèzè 04:02	lyrics	buy track
Lyrics by Neg Madnick qui sont ses sorciers qui soufflent sur nos tetes prêts à les couper sous prétexte d'égalité. la fraternité empoisonne et nous cloisonne. la justice déconne en vacances mode colonie les criminels utilisent leur potion et nous imposent leur bondieu sans concession la methode tour de passe passe et on sait tous ou sa casse... (English translation) who are these wizards blowing on our heads ready to cut them off under the pretext of equality. fraternity poisons and isolates us. justice goes haywire on holiday criminals use their potion and impose their unconditional rule on us the sleight-of-hand method and we all know where it breaks...
5.	Bhimpalasi 09:10	info	buy track
6.	Surrounded 03:41	info	buy track
7.	What Could I Do 05:05	info	buy track
8.	Movéfèzè (extended instrumental) 04:48		buy track

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Alpacas Collective once again invites you for an enchanting musical trip. After finding their voice and soul on their well received debut album ‘Seven Wisdoms of Plutonia’ (October 2022), they are excited to release the second collection of Alpacas tunes one year after! From of the adventurous spaces of Plutonia , from where Alpacas Collective emerged, this gang of fanatic music lovers continue their trip through new places with new friends on the new album ‘Big Words’.

‘Seven Wisdoms of Plutonia’ was a tasty blend of smells and musical spices from Lagos to Addis Ababa, from Augusta, Georgia to New Orleans, and from Delhi to sci-fi worlds on a tasty crust of deep funk. The album went on to receive global support from the likes of Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45’s/UK), Aldo Struyf (bandleader Mark Lanegan), Massimiliano Conti (Ness Radio/IT), DJ Mukambo (BE), Dusty Groove (US), David Patterson (JFSR/Mo Wax/UK), Stefaan Vandenberghe (Sdban Records) and more.

The new album ‘Big Words’, basically deepens those musical traces, takes the listener on a journey of discovery through a world of afrobeat, deep funk, hindustani raga mixed with psycho-dub and creole rap.

Studio magic is once again conjured up by percussionist, composer and producer Frederik Kühn, with the creative contributions and improvisations of befriended artists, doing their signature tricks.

Thanks to these new collective collaborations, this record breathes creative freedom and the pure joy of creating together; But it also is a musical reflecting of resistance, against the downgrading of morality and consciousness, against one-sided thinking, against the curtailment of liberty and justice, against the destruction of the environment.

On title track ‘Big Words’ the collective pays homage to the late great Fela Kuti, with a political afrobeat song, dissing politicians’ hollow speech; On the song ‘Movéfèzè’ - creole for villains - rapper Nèg Madnick denounces the rich plantation owners who have poisoned his beautiful Caribbean island Martinique with toxic pesticides; ‘Boyoma’ has an irresistible African funk-groove helped by multi-talented West-African griot Zouratié Koné on his sparkling ngoni; ‘What Could I do’, is propulsed with joyful horns, pumping organs and jazzy flutes on funky grooves; Both ‘Bhimpalasi’ and ‘Gunkali’ with the Joël on his bewitching sitar, give the album a spiritual Indian touch without forgetting the hips, heart and belly. The mesmerising ‘Surrounded’ in itself sounds like the soundtrack for a musical and cinematographic wandering from the East to the West, the ever expanding journey of Alpacas Collective…

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released November 11, 2023

Recorded, Mixed & Produced by FREDERIK KÜHN
Mastered by FREDERIK DEJONGH at JERBOA MASTERING
Design & Illustration by LM Lambrechts

ALPACAS COLLECTIVE:
Stan Hennes - drums
Frederik Kühn - percussion
Steve Vandervoort - bass
Robby Swiggers - guitar & vocals
Jeroen Ollevier - keys
Alexander Dingens - alto & tenor saxophone
Marc Jans - baritone saxophone & trombone
Sander Vos - percussion & xylophone
Hans van Scharen - baritone, alto & tenor saxophone
Jérome Swevers - flute, trumpet
Joël Van Roode - sitar

Neg Madnick - vocals (Movéfèzè)
Zouratié Koné - ngoni (Boyoma)
Geert Claes - trumpet (What Could I Do)
Alain Louie - vocals (Big Words)

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Alpacas Collective takes you on a trip from Lagos to Addis Ababa, from Augusta, Georgia to New Orleans, and from Delhi to sci-fi worlds, bringing it all back home in a unique set of original songs featured on its debut album Seven Wisdoms of Plutonia (coming October 2022). ... more

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