C Joynes - Congo CD

From Bo'weavil Records... Continuing further into the territories of domesticated English voudou sketched out by 2009's 'Revenants, Prodigies & The Restless Dead', 'Congo' is dominated by notions of landscape, imagination and personal ritual. However, while elements of introspection and intensity do appear, the mood is one of simple uplifting joy. Warm woody sounds and themes for a variety of donated, rescued and homemade instruments contrast with occasional stark arrangements, bursts of blossoming electricity, and passages of dense improvisation. Contributions from friends and colleagues generate momentum and interplay at key points, enabling these recordings to site the loner aesthetic within the traditions of Social Music for dancing and communion.