Dazibao's music is hard to specify as it approaches a festive
'euro-oriental' folk atmosphere. The successful fusion of Sophie Cavez
and Jonathan de Neck diatonic accordions' intermixes emotions of an
extraordinary journey.


Nacreous buttons and bellows
create a dance universe and a voluble listening. At the centre of this
acoustic universe experienced personalities evolve in already proven
paths.



This project has already been polished up (Dranouter folkfestival,
Flagey, Euritmix, Festival de Saint-Chartier, Bozar, Festival d'art de
Huy...) with Dazibao's first album 'Alma'. It was born from an
encounter of the diatonic accordions crossbred with some Flamenco
touches and eastern resonances with slight arabesques and impaired
rhythms of the Balkans of Karim Baggili's guitar. All this sustained by
the numerous percussions (darbouka, pandeiro, udu, cajon,...) of Jo
Zanders.



Dazibao is now presenting a brand new repertoire with the release of
its second album 'E40'! With Emmanuel Baily at the electro-acoustic
guitar and Vincent Noiret at the double bass. A fresh and original
quintet where music means pleasure. Dazibao amazes, breaks the rhythms,
knows how to reinvent itself in a single song. Diatonist seeds' to
expose in the wind


"Dazibao, which is the Chinese word for wallpaper, is an instrumental
group who delivers a more vivid world than just wallpaper music. One of
its members, Sophie Cavez is formerly known from post folk-rock band
Urban Trad. The expression more is that of a contemporary journey
through lots of styles, rhythmical tunes and known dance forms, almost
like but also more creative than that, as if under the form of a slowed
down potpourri.


The music is played by diatonic accordion
dialogues, jazzy bass, acoustic guitar and a mostly very much
dissolving-into-the-swing percussion. It is rhythmically changing from
a jazzier to a more folky, to a more tango-like swing, depending on the
themes, mostly led by the accordions. Favourite track of mine is "La
Flûte à six schtroumps" with Middle Eastern hand percussion and vocals
by Sophie Cavez.



At first I wasn't so sure of the real purpose why the group took this
journey to these different styles, but it is the three formerly
mentioned swing that keeps all the aspects and tunes well structured,
fluently and logically together."

Gerald Van Waes - www.psychedilicfolk.com