Brain Damage Meets Vibronics
Empire Soldiers
Vibronics and Brain Damage meet each others around a new concept, a narrative inspiration which will probably come upon: the First World War Anglo- Caribbean soldiers experience. Madu Messenger, the academic historian, poet and songwriter uses the result of years of research to introduce a series of texts dealing with key issues such as travel, friendship, war, and death, during this period. This project offers a learning experience establishing disturbing parallels between an historical unknown period and contemporary considerations affecting all of us such as: cultural shock, immigration, imperial power and horrors war. The different origins of the musicians of the projects: English, French, Jamaican, Asian allow them to have a reflection on this sensitive issue and to make a cultural rapprochement opposed to some enslavement and communitarianism models Brain Damage and Vibronics Reggae/dub is stepped in different influences mixing knowledge, spontaneity and human experience. To illustrate their productions, Madu Messenger, M Parvez, Sir Jean, Mohammed El Amraoui are in featuring