{"id":15538,"date":"2020-11-09T00:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=15538"},"modified":"2022-08-15T00:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:10:44","slug":"zazou-bikaye-mr-manager-cd","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/zazou-bikaye-mr-manager-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Zazou Bikaye &#8211; Mr. Manager &#8211; CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the acclaimed 2017 vinyl reissue of the \u201cNoir et Blanc\u201d album, we\u2019re excited to present a <strong>special edition<\/strong> of <strong>Zazou Bikaye\u2019s<\/strong> second record, \u201c<strong>Mr. Manager<\/strong>\u201d, which only ever came out on vinyl, in 1985. This edition comprises nine additional tracks, including six previously-unreleased recordings, and three which were only included on limited-edition singles.<\/p>\n<p>Stemming from the encounter between Congolese vocalist\/composer <strong>Bony Bikaye<\/strong>, French musician\/producer <strong>Hector Zazou<\/strong> and modular synth wizards CY1, <strong>Zazou Bikaye<\/strong> made history with their debut, cult album \u201cNoir et Blanc\u201d (1983), a\u00a0 groundbreaking Afro\/electronic experiment which has been adulated to this day by generations of music fans and musicians.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, after the release of \u201cNoir et Blanc\u201d, <strong>Zazou Bikaye<\/strong> turned into a proper band, and started developing their own special brand of digital Afrobeat\/Afrofunk. Hector Zazou took on the task of writing and programming the music, and Bony Bikaye expanded on the more extrovert side of his vocal styles. They set out to record a large number of tracks, five of which came out in 1985 as \u201c<strong>Mr. Manager<\/strong>\u201d, a 32-minute mini-album.<\/p>\n<p>The record was acclaimed when it came out on <strong>Crammed<\/strong>, and also benefitted from domestic releases in Japan, and in the US (on Mark Kamins\u2019 Pow Wow label). <strong>Zazou Bikaye<\/strong> played concerts around Europe, and did a memorable couple of shows in New York. Two of the tracks from \u201c<strong>Mr. Manager<\/strong><em>\u201d (Angel\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Nostalgie)<\/em>\u00a0became underground club hits in the US and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The vinyl version will include eight tracks, plus a download card giving access to all fourteen tracks.<br \/>\nAll fourteen tracks will appear in the digital and the CD versions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crammed Discs<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Crammed Discs<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In 1984, after the release of \u201cNoir et Blanc\u201d, <strong>Zazou Bikaye<\/strong> turned into a proper band, and started developing their own special brand of digital Afrobeat\/Afrofunk. Hector Zazou took on the task of writing and programming the music, and Bony Bikaye expanded on the more extrovert side of his vocal styles. They set out to record a large number of tracks, five of which came out in 1985 as \u201c<strong>Mr. Manager<\/strong>\u201d, a 32-minute mini-album.<\/p>\n<p>The record was acclaimed when it came out on <strong>Crammed<\/strong>, and also benefitted from domestic releases in Japan, and in the US (on Mark Kamins\u2019 Pow Wow label). <strong>Zazou Bikaye<\/strong> played concerts around Europe, and did a memorable couple of shows in New York. Two of the tracks from \u201c<strong>Mr. Manager<\/strong><em>\u201d (Angel\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Nostalgie)<\/em>\u00a0became underground club hits in the US and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nlqfB22ByMj4HJRuBXKWolA2t8dmMsZUo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[2660,1370,3546,2659],"class_list":{"0":"post-15538","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-bikaye","7":"product_tag-crammed-discs","8":"product_tag-mr-manager","9":"product_tag-zazou","10":"product_shipping_class-cd","11":"pa_artist-zazou-bikaye","12":"pa_genre-acid-house","13":"pa_genre-congotronics","14":"pa_genre-electronics","15":"pa_label-crammed-discs","16":"pa_label-ensemble","18":"first","19":"outofstock","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/15538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=15538"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=15538"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=15538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}