Zentone, c’est ça. Un projet qui réunit deux visions du dub, tout en assumant ses contradictions et ses explorations sonores sans limites. Un peu dub, un peu electro, un peu world music. Et en même temps, rien de tout ça vraiment. Né de la fusion entre Zenzile et High Tone, deux piliers de la scène dub française, et du lumineux Jolly Joseph, chanteur multi-instrumentiste de la scène sound-system, qui vient cimenter la création officielle du groupe. Zentone est l’incarnation parfaite d’une expérimentation collective !
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A few summers back a few college friends and I made an impromptu visit over the channel to France. We had a kind of hippy convoy of sad-looking vehicles with a couple of assigned drivers (most of us didn’t have our licences). We were all broke and we had no real plan about places to stay.
After a day’s hungover driving we arrived at Saint-Nazaire. We found a beach that stretched for miles near an airfield and raced each other into the water for a twilight swim. We could hear King Tubby blasting from the speakers of a beat-up station wagon. It was a Spanish couple with a young child who’d driven up to see a band none of us had heard of.
That night we went to check out this band, which turned out to be Lyon dub-reggae outfit High Tone at a place called Le Vip. They played a tranced-out kind of dub, with loads of samples and some heavy breakdowns. With a lot of us being used to the drum’n’bass scene in south London, this was a band we all got.
I just bought their latest LP, Ekphron. It’s been on permanent rotation for days and I owe it all to this friendly Spanish couple. If you guys are reading this, shout out and thanks.
tom-lee-7
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