The fourth album from DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson couldn't have a more explicit title. Masters of emotions and feelings, the duo has always known how to express melancholy and nostalgia with precision. Yet this time, all their efforts have concentrated on a single goal: taking listeners by the hand - no, by the ear, obviously! - to bring everyone back to the dancefloor and explore a variety of atmospheres together. And naturally, a variety of styles. Funk, ndombolo, electro, hip-hop or zouk, each new vibration discovered carries away the previous one to form a dancefloor where all eventually come together. 

To evoke transidentity, consent, economic malaise as well as the spiritual, or to tell little stories of frustrated loves, seemingly insoluble but which will end well. Anthony Hilaire for Creole words, Sarah Solo for hip-swiveling soukous, Patrick Bebey for pygmy flute notes, and Grégoire Mahé to bring electricity to DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson's songs; styles blend in a musicality worked into its smallest interstices. Gathered on this dancefloor illuminated with 80s disco brilliance, you observe brassy notes slithering under the electronic veneer, synthesizer keys splashed by furious hip movements. To raise your eyes to connect with the spiritual is to watch the sky become constellated with crystalline Fender Rhodes notes, destined to fall like rain on the heavy bass of afrobeat groove. Smiles attached to faces, no one should think they can get through the ten tracks of "Divine Dances" while remaining seated.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Cosmic outernational vibrations! DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson refine their Afro-French formula for an album that's tailor made for summertime enjoyment.

TRACK LISTING

A1.Danses Divines
A2.Inflation
A3.Joséphine (Ft. Manone)
A4.La Go Kitoko
A5.Redessiner

B1.Jackson Pollock
B2.I Salé
B3.Sarah Solo
B4.Consentement
B5.Sa Ou Fè