New Release: Atelier Kamikazi – Loketo

As on their first EP “Mokili Na Poche” on Seismographic Records, ATELIER KAMIKAZI’S collaborative lyrics are dedicated to their spectrum of life as street kids. They struggle with the exhausting and dangerous beauty of life in Kinshasa by encouraging themselves and promising never to give up. Neither in the face of lying politics, nor in the face of a religion whose representative they call “Priest Cat’s Heart”, nor in the face of that great power to which they dedicate several songs, the drug called “Bomb”, made from car catalyst deposits mixed with a wild cocktail of ingredients. They warn against using this drug to see “the nakedness of the turtle”, because the only thing that could really be seen would be the ridiculousness of those consuming the drug. They counter that they are on a mission to conquer the future with their weapons: the weapons of speech, their knowledge and Loketo, the hip swing of dance.
A deep thank you from the heart goes to Cedrick Tshimbalanga & ATELIER KAMIKAZI for enabling this vinyl record with their trust in our work. Without their cooperation and exceptional minds this record would not exist. Thanks go also to AcudMachtNeu (Berlin) and LabKontempo (Kinshasa) as well as to DHBW Ravensburg for supporting our research in Kinshasa.

LIMITED PINK VINYL EDITION:

UK Preorder:
www.juno.co.uk/products/atelier-kamikazi-loketo-vinyl/1085336-01/

DE Preorder: www.deejay.de/Atelier_Kamikazi_Loketo_LP_SR005_Vinyl__1144416

A deep thank you from the heart goes to Cedrick Tshimbalanga & Atelier KAMIKAZI for enabling this vinyl record with their trust in our work. Without their cooperation and exceptional minds this record would not exist.
Thanks go also to AcudMachtNeu (Berlin) and LabKontempo (Kinshasa) as well as to DHBW Ravensburg for supporting our research in Kinshasa.

Vinyl Production: Martin Georgi, Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund.
Design: Julia Raschke.
Mastering: Norman Nitzsche (Calyx Mastering, Berlin).
SR 005
2025
A cooperation between Seismographic Records and fluctuating images.

Want to support Cedrick Tshimbalanga’s work with Atelier KAMIKAZI through patreon?
Go to: www.patreon.com/optionongd?l=engl

https://seismorecords.bandcamp.com/album/loketo