Denis Tchangou

Denis Tchangou is an ingenious drummer and percussionist and above all a talented arranger, unfortunately not yet well enough known, in my opinion, in his country of origin, Cameroon. Revisiting musical standards, whatever their genres, by marinating them in this crazy polyrhythm and African polyphony is part of his aesthetic approach that the album Gombo Orchestra (2004) restores in a very interesting way! Indeed, taking the gamble of revisiting music classics as famous as "Let It Be", "Georgia", "No Woman No Cry", "Oye Como Va" or "I Feel Good", with this reappropriation which gives a particular coloring to tubes whose auditory memory, always happy for the case in point, already constitutes in itself a sort of unsurpassable aesthetic limit (which consequently transforms Denis Tchangou's initiative into a totally crazy bet!), appears as an initiative that we must salute with both hands! Let us quickly add, and for the guidance of the faithful readers of this page and especially for those who will discover it here, that he had already done, and with equal happiness, the same thing with the songs of Georges Brassens!