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Benda Bilili!
Benda Bilili!
cast: Roger Landu, Coco Ngambali, Djunana Tanga-Suele
year: 2010
colour: yes
certificate: PG
director: Renaud Barret, Florent de La Tullaye
runtime: 85
The core of the group consists of four seasoned singer/guitarists perched on spectacular customized tricycles, occasionally dancing on the floor of the stage, arms raised in joyful supplication. Behind them is a young and entirely acoustic rhythm section, and to top it all there are the weird, infectious guitar-like solos of Roger, a teenage prodigy who plays a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can.
Staff Benda Bilili consider themselves as the real journalists of Kinshasa, as their songs document and comment events of everyday life. One of their key messages is: the only real handicaps are not in the body but in the mind. Benda Bilili means “look beyond appearances” – literally, put forward what is hidden.
This extraordinary group was encountered in 2005 by Florent de La Tullaye and Renaud Barret, two young French filmmakers who were shooting a series of films on the many musicians and other amazing figures living and working in the urban jungle of Kinshasa. They were blown away by Staff Benda Bilili, and decided to devote an entire feature film to the band. They also introduced the band to Crammed Discs, who signed the group, produced the album and released it to the world. The rest is, in World Music arenas, history! In Europe for the second time, the film is a rare opportunity to share in the infectious music of these irrepresible human beings.
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