“Caught in the Spirit”
For her second album, Dajla took a trip to Africa. On the programme : shamans, pygmies and amazing coincidences.
We are in 2007. In the city of Brest, Dajla and her faithful producer Benji get a call from french-Gabonese dance director Herwann Asseh, who wishes to hire them on his next creation project. A few weeks later, the pair flies to Libreville. Surprise : as they come into the hotel, they realise that the building bears the same name as one of their recently written songs, “Paquito”. “That was the first mystic thing that happened to us”explains Dajla. After that they met with the pygmies of Gabon “like being on a retreat…to find answers”. During the ceremonies, while dancing in a trance, Dajla recognizes techno, and drum and bass rhythms. The french will perform 5 times in total in Gabon.
After “Soul Poetry”, a pure and mineral album, Dajla wanted to create her own musical world : “I studied piano jazz, I come from a town called Saint Nazaire where punk music prevailed, I used to hang out with Fishbone…The result is something very natural, it hasn’t been planned. My voice is more settled, the record is more mature, it breathes more than the previous one”.
A record drenched with spells with a captivating cover : its African masks looking at us…
