Peder Mannerfelt crafts The Swedish Congo Record

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  • Archives Intérieures will release the Roll The Dice member's next solo album, inspired by 1930s recordings from the Congo.
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  • Roll The Dice man Peder Mannerfelt will drop a new LP, The Swedish Congo Record, on May 4th. The Swedish artist has spent the past two years feeling out his solo career, releasing an album on Digitalis and a handful of singles for We Can Elude Control and Stockholm LTD. His latest move brings him over to Archives Intérieures, the label run by Peter Van Hoesen and Yves De Mey, for his second full-length. The Swedish Congo Record was inspired by a 78 RPM recording of sounds from Central Congo in the 1930s by filmmaker Armand Denis. The music was originally released in 1950 as The Belgian Congo Records and was known as some of the first recorded music to come out of the region. A noted fan of African music, Mannerfelt was inspired by his discovery of the record and set out to make an album based on samples from it. As the label points out, however, Mannerfelt realized that "simply sampling the original album could be seen as another way of colonizing or disrespectful appropriation," and so Mannerfelt set out to recreate the LP using synthesizers to "pay tribute to the traditional and folkloric meaning of the dances." Tracklist 01. Bapere Dance 02. Bahuto Chant & Dances 1 03. Batwa Pigmy Dance 2 04. Royal Watusi Drums 3 05. Batwa Pigmy Dance 1 06. Omande 07. Xylophone at Lubero 08. Mambuti Pigmy Flutes 09. Batwa Pigmy Dance 3 10. Chief Karumi´s Dance 11. The Ceremonial Drums of Chief Kokonyange 12. Elephant Feast 13. Royal Watusi Drums 1 14. Pigmy´s of Kigali 15. Flagellation 16. Circumcision Dance 17. Kokonyange´s Dance 18. Humming 19. Bahuto Chant & Dances 2 20. Circumcision Atmosphere 21. Bahuto Chant & Dances 3 22. The Circumcision Bird 23. Stick Orchetstra 24. Royal Watusi Drums 2 Archives Intérieures will release The Swedish Congo Record on May 4th, 2015.
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