Les Amazones D'Afrique - Republique Amazone (2017)

Faced with producing a collaborative album by west Africa’s
most celebrated women singers, from Angelique Kidjo to Mariam Doumbia and Mamani Keita, most people would opt for getting in their way as little as possible.The French-Irish producer Dr L, by contrast, fills the soundscape with electronic bleeps and glitches, then squeezes and overdrives the voices to the brink of distortion.This approach worked brilliantly for him on Mbongwana Star’s debut album; here, although the bounce and pulse are undeniable, the result feels as if it will date almost immediately.