In collaboration with Clandestino…

Scrap punk, electronic, or futuristic soukous? It is not easy to put your finger on Fulu Miziki's wayward sound world.

The band's name roughly means "music made of trash" and quite rightly, this group from Congo Kinshasa creates music on an arsenal of instruments constructed from various container finds: Everything from a guembri built from an old desktop, to a drum set made of plastic drums and keyboard inventions made of wood , springs and aluminum tubes. One of the members plays on a kind of pads with the help of a pair of discarded flip-flops.

The band was founded by Pisko Crane, a musician who created scores of instruments from objects he found in Kinshasa's dumps and workshops. But not only the musical instruments, but also Fulu Miziki's futuristic stage clothes and masks arise as a result of the band's ideas about recycling and "upcycling" as a way of living in greater harmony with nature.

The Afrofuturist record label Nyege Nyege invited the group to Kampala in Uganda where they recorded their latest album, N'Djila Wa Mudujimu. Together with producer Jonathan Saldanha, Fulu Miziki captured better than ever before the raw power that is evident in every concert with the group, where the rhythms of the street marry with the jazz of the future.