ZOROBILËL
Zorobilël
Zorobilël
15-12-2008
Kinshasa
Congo
Songwriter Zorobilël is a multi-faceted artist whose eclectic influences come from his childhood in Congo. In 2008, he composes Zorobilël, his 2nd album, a sweet and sour cocktail of African and Occidental tones, mixing rhythm and arrhythmia. From Kinshasa to Paris, from Kingston to Mali, Zorobilël’s music carries out the deepest human emotions, speaking the universal language of world music. At 31, Zorobilël reaches his artistic maturity and is now in the forefront.
Born and raised in Kinshasa, his childhood is rythmed by the agwayas (traditional music of Congo), and by the popular rumba songs of Luambo Makiadi « Franco », one of the leading artists in African music of the 70’s and 80’s. Influenced very early by occidental music, he listens to Nina Simone or Jimi Hendrix and is seduced by the reggae spirituality of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
As a teenager, at the time of his first guitar and of his first music band, Zorobilël already knew his destiny would be artistic. His gift for painting led him to studying art at “les Beaux-Arts”, first in Valencia (Spain) then in Paris where he graduated from La Sorbonne. Despite his paintings exhibited worldwide, Zorobilël feels that even more than painting music chose him. It would have only taken a couple of concerts in Paris to seal his destiny: his inside spirtituality now urges him to sing his own music on stage.
His second album Zorobilël, following arrhythmical debut album “10 Mouvements”, carries out the wide range of his deepest inside feelings. He indeed conceives music as the outside expression of inside spirituality and as a reconciliation with one’s self. Fame and spotlights? He would rather dream himself as a lonesome folk-music minstrel, wandering with his guitar as his only companion, as Bob Dylan or Tracy Chapman.
For Zorobilël, music should experiment new boundaries and extend the musical vocabulary of traditional harmonies. Like Miles Davis for whom “dissonances don’t exist”, he believes dissonance is an acknowledgement that there is more to be expressed in music than comfortable sensations. Zorobilël’s philosophical conception of art based ..er Kandisky’s “inner necessity” leads him to evolve a new tonal palette to reach the human soul.
