ndox électrique en

Adorcist & Post-Industrial ritual.
Spirits, Possession & Trance.
Senegal.

Ndox Electrique is a ritual of possession coming from the n’döep ceremonies in Senegal.

It’s wild, it’s dark and solar, it's feminine and powerful, groovingly calling the spirits

to heal the modern world with traditionnal incantations, dances & percussions,

electric guitars & computers. On stage, healing mistresses & musicians make a pact

with the Spirits : it takes much more than good intentions but dancing sweat

and a consistent volume to achieve salvation through music & trance.


World music in the West is most often formatted & presented as fancy & innocent

postcards: the sun, the dunes, the smiles, the welcome, the attaya or the ceebu jën

offered to the lovely toubabs, etc.  However the music of the cruel, wild, frenzied,

real and even bloodthirsty worlds betrays that neo-colonialist postcard presentation.


To cast out the demons during a n'döep ceremonie among the Lebous

of Senegal, it will take music & songs of a huge volume to reach the elevation

of the trance, and sweat & blood to sanctify the action and to satisfy the spirits.

Rituals of incredible loudness and musical violence for a spirituality

coupled with a magnificent and imperious social role during liturgies

where Western griots like Meshuggah or The Birthday Party

would only be considered as well-educated choir boys. 

(The volume of N'döep is so huge that its singers nowadays

use megaphones.)


People around the world have always felt the need to transcend

their fears of life and death, to rise above their misfortunes and terrors.

Now it’s about time to destroy, immolate your own music and annihilate

your cultural influences by the power of other songs, melodies, chants, other rhythms, other sweats of trance and elevation.

 

Breaking everything in turn, then reshaping the materials, respectfully iconoclastic to become what music really is when it is no longer commercial: a wind, little or nothing but a wild and cathartic emotion.


Still working from years with Ifriqiyya Electrique, François R. Cambuzat and Gianna Greco (from the seminal Putan Club) could not find out where the North African adorcist communities, such banga, stambeli, diwân or gnawa, came from. Of the Arab-Muslim slave route, that was certain, but from which country, from which region? The traces seemed lost. Research after research, little by little this five-century-old road led them to West Africa, Senegal and the Lebu's n'döep. For months in Mbour, Guereo, Rufisque, Yoff and Ndar (Saint-Louis), François R. Cambuzat and Gianna Greco got lost among the seas and banks of Senegal, sacrificing to spirits -most often aquatic- ndox, water, in the Wolof language.


Tëdd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang: lying between Mame Coumba Lamba and Mame Coumba Mbang, the female geniuses of a tiny part of a huge continent. And so the title of the futur album, to be released by Bongo Joe Records on the 3rd of November 2023 (BJR 089).


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Rituals

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First rituals in the West:
12/11 -
LE GUESS WHO? Festival, Utrecht [NL]

07/12 - Festival TRANS MUSICALES, Rennes [F]

First Western tour: June-December 2024


ndox électrique

NDOX ELECTRIQUE (pronunciation)
Tëdd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang

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BONGO JOE RECORDS - BJR 089

Distribution: Force Exposure (USA), L’Autre Distribution (F), Indigo (D & A),

Irascible (CH & A), K7 (UK, D, Worldwide), Bongo Joe Records (CH, I, GR, J).,
MGM (aka the groove merchants) (AUS), V2, Rush Hour...


01 - Jamm Yé Matagu Yalla (04:19)

02 - Lëk Ndau Mbay (03:55)

03 - Ngor Diouf Ya Demon (05:11)

04 - He Yay Naliné (02:40)

05 - Indi Mewmi (06:22)

06 - Yaré Rirewé Bakora Ndoye (01:11)

07 - Ngor Diouf Né Du Wallé (04:09)

08 - Sam Sa Nga Mboro (06:43)

09 - Wali Namalé (03:42)

10 - Sango Mara Riré (04:58)
Total length: 43:13


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Live in Ndar (extracts 2022)

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Ndox Electrique collective :

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  Awa Mbodji : vocal

  Ndeye Coumba Mbaye Kebe : vocal

  Oumar Ngom : nder, mbëng-mbëng, thiol, tama & choir

  Mouhamet "Sangue" Sambe : nder, mbëng-mbëng, thiol, tama & choir

  Mamadou "Pape" Ngom : nder, mbëng-mbëng, thiol, tama & choir

  Cheikh Ma Djimbira "N'digueul" Ndiaye : nder, mbëng-mbëng, thiol, tama & choir

  Aida Touré : sabar & choir

  Rokhaya “Madame” Diène : vocal
  Adjaratou "Oumou" Diène : choir

  Mar Faye : mbëng-mbëng
  Ndiaga Mboup : tunguné & tama
  Abdou Seck : thiol & talmbath 

  Gianna Greco : bass, choir, computer & videos

  François R. Cambuzat : guitars, choir, computer & videos


Choir of the “Fanal de la langue de Barbarie”:
  Rokhaya Mbaye

  Gamou Dieng

  Fatou Aladji Mbaye

Ousmane Ba: Fulani flute tambing.

Abdoulaye Ndiaye “Pape Laye”: n’döepkat  & spiritual guidance, master healer and guardian of the temple of Rufisque.

 

All musicians & singers are contemporary based in Senegal & in France.

Recorded by Moussa Niang, François R. Cambuzat & Gianna Greco at Institut français de Saint-Louis du Sénégal, november 2020.
Mixed by François R. Cambuzat on the banks of the Senegal river, January 2021.

Mastering : Gregor Zemljic, Ljubljana, SLO

Video editing : Carlo Mazzotta, Copertino, I


Ethics & politics guidance : Victor Faye

Sound engineer : Moussa Niang

Opening of the doors of N’döep : Adama Samba Diop

Fonio, niébé, ceebu jën and a thousand others : Maryème Soda, Chez Dasso, Ndar


Special thanks to Marc Monsallier. Charm, love, respect & modern spirituality.

Gianna Greco & François R. Cambuzat play on guitars specially built for far-away journeys by Mattia Maglio.

 

Some early N’döep field-recordings from our archives:
- morning ritual in Guereo,

- N’döep songs in Bargny.

 

Photos: Massow Ka & Renaud de Foville. 


Laureate of the “Villa Saint-Louis Ndar” residency program.
With the support of the French Institute of Saint-Louis in Senegal.



Contacts

Ndox Electrique : François R. Cambuzat
Telephone: +33 (0)6 69 06 57 21
Booking:

France & more : Sylvain Dartoy, WAX Booking
Northern Europe : Marisa Segala, Second to the Left


More about the n'döep: Omar Ndoye, Transe thérapeutique chez les Lébous du Sénégal, L'Harmattan, F

Pictures from the N'döep in Senegal
François R. Cambuzat & Gianna Greco - Archives

Pape Laye, master healer and guardian of the temple of Rufisque

François R. Cambuzat & Gianna Greco


Trans-Aeolian Transmission

 

Day maték, dou maté

boul dougal sa lokho.


If it bites or does not bite, in any case do not put your hand in it.

Research & creation supported by the Villa Saint-Louis Ndar and the French Institute in Senegal.