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Zun Zun Egui

Shackles Gift

Produced by Andrew Hung of Fuck Buttons 'Shackles' Gift' is the album that Zun Zun Egui have always threatened to deliver and we always believed they would Opening with 'Rigid Man' it hits the listener with boneshaking tropical funk Future single 'African Tree' strolls past on a marching band rhythm complete with an arenasized chorus and Kyussheavy stoner rock guitars 'Ruby' is like imperial period Depeche Mode discovering the delights of industrial dancehall reggae while 'I Want You To Know' is an absolute funk noise rock monster sounding like Steve Albini recording Queens Of The Stone Age jamming on 'Kashmir' 'Soul Scratch' is a very British take on a very Mauritian form of music called seggae which combines the African island folk music known as sega with reggae but imbuing it with an adrenalised urban uptightness The album concludes with 'City Thunder' an elemental dubbed out and dread take on post rock and disco Frontman Kushal says that first and foremost 'Shackles' Gift' is a British rock record made by a British group but admits that the first sparks of its creation started flying when Zun Zun Egul visited Mauritius in March 2013 The African island nation which lies 700 miles east of Madagascar deep in the Indian Ocean invited the band to give a concert as part of their Independence Day celebrations The island's dynamic history has led to a multilingual multicultural modern nation which has influenced Zun Zun Egui in more ways than one Not only has Mauritian music been one of the many primary ingredients of their sound and inspired Kushal's multilingual approach to singing the island has 12 main languages but the diversity of the country acts as a metaphor for the diversity of the group itself LP With CD Version