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Fulu Miziki is a collective of artists who comes straight from a future where humans have reconciled with mother earth and with themselves. FULU MIZIKI roughly translates as “music from the garbage”, which in a literal sense is an accurate description of the thrillingly chaotic eco-friendly Afro-Futurist collective. The instruments they design, build and play are masterclasses in upcycling.
From guembris built out of computer casing, to jerry-can drum-kits, keyboard inventions from wood, springs and aluminium pipes, and old flip-flops used as pads by plastic tube-wielding percussion players, the Democratic Republic of Congo-formed group’s ethos lies in the respect of nature, the celebration of its gifts and the importance of its preservation through environmentalism.
Fulu Miziki Kinshasa's music warriors
Fulu Miziki Music Warrior
Jamming with the people at Le Bon Air Festival in Marseille 2022
Fulu Miziki live at Rio loco Festival 2021 (full concert)
YouTube channel
Bandcamp
Why Congo's Fulu Miziki Band Uses Recycled Trash To Create Instruments And Costumes
“I came here because I am looking for what I can use to make musical instruments, but I also want to bring attention to the problem of waste management in this city. Kinshasa has become very dirty, that is why I am taking some of the waste to create musical instruments.”
From guembris built out of computer casing, to jerry-can drum-kits, keyboard inventions from wood, springs and aluminium pipes, and old flip-flops used as pads by plastic tube-wielding percussion players, the Democratic Republic of Congo-formed group’s ethos lies in the respect of nature, the celebration of its gifts and the importance of its preservation through environmentalism.
Fulu Miziki Kinshasa's music warriors
Fulu Miziki Music Warrior
Jamming with the people at Le Bon Air Festival in Marseille 2022
Fulu Miziki live at Rio loco Festival 2021 (full concert)
YouTube channel
Bandcamp
Why Congo's Fulu Miziki Band Uses Recycled Trash To Create Instruments And Costumes
“I came here because I am looking for what I can use to make musical instruments, but I also want to bring attention to the problem of waste management in this city. Kinshasa has become very dirty, that is why I am taking some of the waste to create musical instruments.”
thank you for this excellent post. i look forward to soundtracking my day with this tomorrow
posted by wowenthusiast at 10:34 PM on August 8, 2022
posted by wowenthusiast at 10:34 PM on August 8, 2022
Oh my god I've been looking for this for years and years.
I first discovered this some years ago through a random and rather short YouTube video doc and I couldn't remember the name or tag "Fulu" correctly, and I've been trying to find it every so often ever since.
What I did remember was a bunch of people marching through a street with a bunch of DIY instruments or beat up old instruments making a happy kind of polyrhythmic sound that I know and love from good deep house and techno.
Which is of course entirely rooted in African rhythms, percussion and melodies but the mini doc I saw about this felt everything like modern dance music and progression mixed right back into African rhythms and sounds that was just super fresh, contemporary, current and real and not more sedate, static or preserved in time like a lot of world beat or traditional rhythms as I've known it.
This is a complicated, subtle and nuanced emotion and opinion from a beat junky. There are new patterns here, and they are informed by and very knowledgeable about the old patterns, and this is fresh. It feels so, so fresh and progressive and I absolutely love it.
Some of these tracks are so precise you could beatmatch them and play them as is in the middle of a modern deep house set and blow people's minds.
posted by loquacious at 10:36 PM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
I first discovered this some years ago through a random and rather short YouTube video doc and I couldn't remember the name or tag "Fulu" correctly, and I've been trying to find it every so often ever since.
What I did remember was a bunch of people marching through a street with a bunch of DIY instruments or beat up old instruments making a happy kind of polyrhythmic sound that I know and love from good deep house and techno.
Which is of course entirely rooted in African rhythms, percussion and melodies but the mini doc I saw about this felt everything like modern dance music and progression mixed right back into African rhythms and sounds that was just super fresh, contemporary, current and real and not more sedate, static or preserved in time like a lot of world beat or traditional rhythms as I've known it.
This is a complicated, subtle and nuanced emotion and opinion from a beat junky. There are new patterns here, and they are informed by and very knowledgeable about the old patterns, and this is fresh. It feels so, so fresh and progressive and I absolutely love it.
Some of these tracks are so precise you could beatmatch them and play them as is in the middle of a modern deep house set and blow people's minds.
posted by loquacious at 10:36 PM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
Hyperlocal Metafilter: They're playing just down the road from me on Saturday! (Band on The Wall, Manchester, UK)
posted by BinaryApe at 5:43 AM on August 9, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by BinaryApe at 5:43 AM on August 9, 2022 [2 favorites]
Oooooooooo they’re really really good
posted by pickles_have_souls at 5:50 AM on August 9, 2022
posted by pickles_have_souls at 5:50 AM on August 9, 2022
This is excellently beautiful! I’m having another Konono No. 1 moment viewing people who are bursting with creativity and music. Makes me feel woefully inadequate with all my fancy pants equipment. I feel that the reality is that the music is always inside and that a real musician will get that music out into world no matter what. Yes, folks, I am ready to admit that I am just a poser.
posted by njohnson23 at 9:38 AM on August 9, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by njohnson23 at 9:38 AM on August 9, 2022 [1 favorite]
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