Alpacas Collective

Alpacas Collective once again invites you for an enchanting musical trip. After finding their voice and soul on their well received debut album ‘Seven Wisdoms of Plutonia’ (October 2022), they are excited to release the second collection of Alpacas tunes one year after! From of the adventurous spaces of Plutonia , from where Alpacas Collective emerged, this gang of fanatic music lovers continue their trip through new places with new friends on the new album ‘Big Words’. ‘Seven Wisdoms of Plutonia’ was a tasty blend of smells and musical spices from Lagos to Addis Ababa, from Augusta, Georgia to New Orleans, and from Delhi to sci-fi worlds on a tasty crust of deep funk. The album went on to receive global support from the likes of Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45’s/UK), Aldo Struyf (bandleader Mark Lanegan), Massimiliano Conti (Ness Radio/IT), DJ Mukambo (BE), Dusty Groove (US), David Patterson (JFSR/Mo Wax/UK), Stefaan Vandenberghe (Sdban Records) and more. 

The new album ‘Big Words’, basically deepens those musical traces, takes the listener on a journey of discovery through a world of afrobeat, deep funk, hindustani raga mixed with psycho-dub and creole rap. Studio magic is once again conjured up by percussionist, composer and producer Frederik Kühn, with the creative contributions and improvisations of befriended artists, doing their signature tricks. Thanks to these new collective collaborations, this record breathes creative freedom and the pure joy of creating together; But it also is a musical reflecting of resistance, against the downgrading of morality and consciousness, against one-sided thinking, against the curtailment of liberty and justice, against the destruction of the environment. 

On title track ‘Big Words’ the collective pays homage to the late great Fela Kuti, with a political afrobeat song, dissing politicians’ hollow speech; On the song ‘Movéfèzè’ - creole for villains - rapper Nèg Madnick denounces the rich plantation owners who have poisoned his beautiful Caribbean island Martinique with toxic pesticides; ‘Boyoma’ has an irresistible African funk-groove helped by multi-talented West-African griot Zouratié Koné on his sparkling ngoni; ‘What Could I do’, is propulsed with joyful horns, pumping organs and jazzy flutes on funky grooves; Both ‘Bhimpalasi’ and ‘Gunkali’ with the Joël on his bewitching sitar, give the album a spiritual Indian touch without forgetting the hips, heart and belly. The mesmerising ‘Surrounded’ in itself sounds like the soundtrack for a musical and cinematographic wandering from the East to the West, the ever expanding journey of Alpacas Collective…