Future Village by KIZABA

Future Village, the eponymous single from singer-songwriter-beatmaker Kizaba's second album, is a cry for freedom for Africa, exploited, robbed and silenced. With Quebec singer Sébastien Lacombe stepping out of his comfort zone, Future Village offers an Afro-pop dubstep mix sublimated by guitars, always the queen of Congolese music.

After the success of her debut album and her recent world tour, KIZABA, révélation Radio-Canada 2024-2025, is more than ever in the spotlight with the release of her second opus: Future Village. Combining tradition and modernity, Future Village reinvents the transmission of traditions in a future where technology becomes an ally of art. It's a place of innovation, sharing and endless inspiration.

Thanks to a unique and delicious musical universe, the past and the future meet in the cultural ferment that is so characteristic of the African continent and that today inspires young people all over the world.

With Future Village, Kizaba wears many hats: producer, songwriter, beat maker-composer, drummer and percussionist to sublimate this Afro-futuristic project, skillfully blending cosmic synths, vintage drum machines and hypnotic guitars.

On Sapologie, sung in French, the artist pays tribute to Congolese culture on a Soukous-influenced track with an electronic twist. On Kimbala, Kizaba and Wesli deliver a hymn to métissage, celebrating the journey of ancestral rhythms from Africa to Haiti during slavery. Deeper still, the track Yembalayé, sung in Lingala, recounts how the artist used music as therapy in the face of the loss of his parents and sister.

Recorded between Kinshasa and Montreal, arranged by Eli Levinson and mixed by James Benjamin, Grammy winner with Kaytranada, Future Village, due out April 11, 2025, transcends musical boundaries while honoring the artist's deep roots.

What will the Congolese music of the future sound like? To feel the vibe and the exaltation, only one voice leads to Afro-futurism: that of Kizaba! An artist in a class of his own, fully inhabited by the music of his origins for its immortality, the Révélation Radio-Canada 2024-2025 is more than ever in the spotlight. In Canada, the Juno Awards praised his art and his unique approach on the album Kizavibe, to be released in 2022 on the Disques Nuits d'Afrique label, in the running in many categories for the world music album of this original creator in the garb of the 22nd century...

If Kizaba's followers are legion, from here to the African continent, it's because the singer-songwriter impresses with his multi-instrumental playing. Like a one-man band, he lifts the inventive rhythm of Afro-Congolese electro, for which he holds the treble key.

An inexhaustible traveler in search of fusion, Lionel KIZABA has sealed alliances across the globe. Singing his vision of tomorrow's world in English and French, he also draws on the languages of his African youth in Kikongo and Lingala. It's a must to see him live on stage, to immerse yourself in his exuberant spirit on the mystical border between Kinshasa and the asphalt of the Boulevard Saint-Laurent. Amazing!

Future Village, his highly anticipated second album, will be released on Friday, April 11 (Disques Nuits d'Afrique / Believe), and Kizaba will offer an exceptional launch concert on April 12 at Fairmount Theater.

Auteur compositeur interprète montréalais originaire du RD Congo. Chanteur, batteur, percussionniste, Lionel Kizaba propose Kizaba, musique de style afro-house congolais novateur et moderne.Inspiré par Papa wemba, Daft punk, David Guetta et Stromae.

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