Hector Zazou

Hector Zazou, Barbara Eramo & Stefano Saletti - Oriental Night Fever (2010) {Materiali Sonori MASOCD90151}
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© 2010 Materiali Sonori | MASO CD 90151
Pop / Experimental / Dance Pop / Indie Pop / Folk Disco / World / Electronica

Here's the idea, Hector said. He had the Disco Inferno CD in his hand, the one we had all danced to at New Year's Eve, reliving the 70's. ''With percussion, oud and bouzouki we'll play disco as if it were world music''. So we went down to the studio and arranged I Feel Love by Donna Summer, just like that, as if we had never listened to anything else. This was Hector's genius, his method, his study of sound, which began with some small detail, from the rustle of a leaf, from a drum tapped on its edge instead of the skin. Then he left us alone to finish the project. And dance to disco.

Hector Zazou - Strong Currents (2003) {Taktic Music, PIC-6}
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© 2003 Telescopic / Taktic Music | PIC-6
Experimental / Synth-Pop / Electronic / Ambient

2003 release featuring 13 tracks with appearances from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laurie Anderson, Melanie Gabriel (daughter of Peter), Jane Birkin, Lisa Germano, & Sarah Jane Morris. Here is the roadmap to a floral and completely sensual landscape. Music that envelopes you like a fragrance and takes you to someplace more infinite and expansive. Beautiful…haunting…the vocals are like velvet and hard to resist. Enjoy.

Hector Zazou, Barbara Eramo & Stefano Saletti - Oriental Night Fever (2010)
Disco Remake/Lounge/World | MP3 | VBR 192-320kbps | 52:14 | 95 MB

Born from an idea of Hector Zazou’s with the singer Barbara Eramo and the multi-instrumentalist Stefano Saletti, the ORIENTAL NIGHT FEVER project is a re-interpretation of various Disco ‘classics’ from the seventies: "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer, "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People, "Night Fever" and "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees, "You Make me Feel" by Sylvester, "Disco Inferno" by the Trammps, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "I Want your Love" by Chic and "Ring my Bell" by Anita Ward. Electronic music played on traditional Mediterranean and Oriental instruments to create a mix that reinvents 1970s Disco without losing its original musical energy.

Hector Zazou, Bikaye & Cy1 - Noir et Blanc (1983) {Crammed Discs CRAM 105}
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© 1983, 2003 Crammed Discs | CRAM 105
Rock / Experimental / Funk / World Music / Alternative / Electronic / Afro Beat / Post-Punk

"Noir Et Blanc" is a groundbreaking album described by the UK & US press as "Fela Kuti-meets-Kraftwerk -on-the-dancefloor" and "in the same class as Byrne and Eno's BUSH OF GHOSTS". Resulting from a torrid encounter between Zairean singer Bony Bikaye, Algerian-born French composer Hector Zazou and mad scientists CY1, it also features wild guitars by Fred Frith and by Kinono No1 producer Vincent Kenis, who also mixed the album alongside Gilles Martin and Crammed founder Marc Hollander.

The Swan song of the French musical magician Hector Zazou is a project together with the exceptional Bulgarian voices of ‘Eva Quartet’ (part of the world famous choir ‘Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares’) with the special participation of musicians from different genres and fields of music…

Zairean Bony Bikaye's Felaesque chants (sans agitprop, avec Afrobeat girls) provide the identity, but the substructure is all French-Algerian Hector Zazou, whose synth arrangements are praised for their orchestral density and distinguished by their propulsive linearity. Most of the Afrogallic music I've heard makes too much (Toure Kunda) or too little (Manu Dibango) of its Africanness. This strikes me as an original balance: minimalist Eurodisco that trades pseudosophistication for pseudoprimitivism.