About Album
« Never settling clouds of dust, rudeness and vulgarity are the halo of heated snafu-cities. Weed pushes through the cracks of abandonned parking areas, and a crumbling cliff’s shadow rules over the high road. There’s rumours beating the streets, the bounding pulse running through your system, the shakings of the earth. It all crawls under your skin ; the worn out, scattered shreds of history stitched back together like a beggar’s carpet. » François Gaertner.
PANGAR are Kwalud and Betnwaar, DJs, producers and sweaty revelry organizers based in Reunion Island, also known as the Sauvage Sound System. As PANGAR, the pair produce a percussive blend of electronic music with a creole super engine fuelled by a unique spin on Reunion Island’s musical heritage, bass music and a furious determination to make it dance all over the planisphere. In a constant clash of influences, they travel imaginary otherworlds, burning through urban sounds from both hemispheres. Modern echoes of maloya – the ancient music of slaves in Reunion Island turned emblem for feisty new generations – meet jerky Soca grooves, ghosts of Dancehall, flashes of Club Music. Rythms collide, mutate and interweave in the shadows of a mysterious, uncharted island, and we never know wether they’re kissing of fighting. Pangar’s experimental, polyrythmic music simultaneously heralds and refuses the end of our world. Their urgent, auditive poetry is echoed live by Fegré’s striking visual artwork.
Tracks written, composed and produced by PANGAR (Ben & Lilian)
Mixed by PANGAR (Ben & Lilian)
Additional credit for ’12’ lyrics & vocals by Ann O’Aro (Anne-Gaëlle Hoarau)
Mastering by Dominic @ Declared Sound – United Kingdom
A&R by Labelle & Alexandre Cazac
A&D by Freddy Leclerc