Ekpe, Sounds of a Second Coming

Ekpe, Sounds of a Second Coming is a live set built from a living sound archive: field recordings in Malabo, oral testimonies, percussion and chants from the Bonkó funerary ritual, a heritage of the Leopard Society, whose ritual practices cross cultures across much of the Gulf of Guinea and the Caribbean. Surviving the transatlantic slave trade, colonial deportation and the massive plunder of countries such as Cuba, Haiti and Equatorial Guinea in encrypted form, as collective memory and hermetic knowledge, their traces are today a historical foundation of genres such as Highlife, Rumba, Salsa or Blues, direct precedents of Pop, Rock or Global EDM in a much broader framework.