What heat

"Bokanté and the Metropole Orkest are not groups that need each other for credibility. Both have established themselves well as out-of-the-box ensembles in markets that often reward homogeneity, Bokanté having done so with only one album to its name. On What Heat, though, Bokanté proves that not only does it know how to thrive as a unit, it knows how to collaborate with grace to make something more than the sum of its parts. What Heat may not have been what Bokanté's enthralled audience expected, but, like Strange Circles, it shows a fondness for the novel and a willingness to always reach for something greater".

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"There is commendable ambition and skill behind this collaboration between Bokanté, the self-styled "super group" founded by Michael League of the New York jazz-funk outfit Snarky Puppy, and the renowned Dutch big band Metropole Orkest (active since 1945). League was inspired to form Bokanté to showcase the Guadaloupe-born singer Malika Tirolien, with whom he writes, most of their songs being delivered in Creole. Charismatic on stage, her vocals are supple, capable of both delicacy and force, and with hip-hop inflections".

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