Zun Zun Egui - Kass To La Sènn EP

The long-awaited follow-up to Zun Zun Egui’s fast-selling debut 12” ‘Bal La Poussiere’ is a multi-coloured colossus that sees them once again bust beyond all rock band barriers: two epic tracks uncoil themselves across a side each, and both really up the compositional ante for the Bristolian/Mauritian/Japanese quartet, bursting forth with Vesuvian power and blooming like musical flora. Two tracks brimming with rolling sub-tropical grooves and atmospheres and a sense of the intrepid adventure that is shot through ZZE’s core.  Side A’s ‘Speedball’ bounces in and richochets round a one hundred-cornered room of its own design: cavern-shaking psych, clawhammer rock, jittery east-African guitars and unlikely semi-rap braggadocio all get a look in before the track majestically ascends the sonic totem pole and passes over on a jet stream of feedback. Flip to the B and we find ‘Praise The Waterfall (Parts 1 & 2)’ which, so say band, paints the sound of “bonobo monkeys worshipping the sun by a waterfall”, and is a live favourite put to tape that swims in joy: elemental sonic washes give way to a devilishly simple passage of guitar-and-groove that seems to alter time, until the whole thing collapses into a Sly Stone soulful singalong that lasts barely a heartbeat, but is infectious enough to induce pox. The ‘Kass To La Sènn EP’ arrives in time for the first How Come...Tour (with Sun Araw) and crowns a year in which Zun Zun Egui have ripped up the musical sideroads in a blaze of liquid music and steaming peformances.

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