Charlotte Adigéry (Adigery)

Belgian/Caribbean electropop/new wave artist

Loving the new album Zandoli, Patenipat and High Lights in particular are aces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkTyEsCNL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBmzhj9DCPo

https://charlotteadigry.bandcamp.com/

highlights is a rocking meditation on black woman hair and deserves to be an anthem imo

every week a different do / alter ego who is who / every single euro too / riches to rags, a bitch's brew / now i could teach a drag or two / i woke up like this, cause all you need is glue / ratchet on my morning tomb / ain't got no style, I'm nobody / I'm nobody, I'm nobody

No home, no phone, no car, no bed / No home, no phone, no car, no bed / But sometimes I'm Judy, Penelope / Or Sandy on a Sunday / Cassandra on a Monday / Matongé is my home stay

I haven't had a chance to play this yet but her debut EP from 2017 is one of my favourite releases ever, incredible-sounding stuff.

Not feeling “Highlights” all that much, but “Paténipat” is great.

If you pair this up with the first EP you have a spectacular album, I think I prefer the songs on the first but I love her voice and how she uses it on this a bit more

I've blasted this EP all week.

oh didnt realise she had a thread, posted on her labels ilx

great ep, love the final track especially

Two thirds of this EP is completely sublime.

Which part do you reckon isnt?

'High Lights' and 'BBC' are several levels below the rest of it IMO.

I love songs about hair, sorry.

I need to check this out, "1,618" from a year or two back might be the best thing Spotify has ever algorithmically nudged at me.

Is her first EP the Wwwater EP or is it under her own name? Caught the end of Wwwater’s set supporting You g Fathers last year, sounded interesting.

There's one under her own name thats self-titled. 1,618 is on that.

Ok, will look out for it.

Love this one. Patenipat, Cursed and Cussed and Okashi are my favorites of this one. I think I like the past EP better but I don’t think there’s a song on these 2 eps that I dislike.

bumping this because lots of folk who enjoyed her tracks placing in the 2020 ballot probably should listen to the first EP which I still reckon is better

earworm of all earworms
had the final track off the ep in my head for about two months after having a seizure last may

my track of the year #2 vote

I love songs about hair, sorry.

― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 22, 2019 9

Patenipat gets played a lot at Hot Mess a lot, which a *certain person* should know.

Lots of lots obv.

yes a certain person is still raging that Hot Mess always falls on a bad weekend for them and has yet to hear any of this in the wild

Saw the live show a few months ago and it was the best thing I saw all year.

Highlights is my favorite by far. Would've been high up my ballot (top 3 for sure) had I voted this year.

Just remembered there is a live vid of a new track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a787HZg1zk

ny show sold out for tomorrow; may be worth just waiting out there

Beats In Space, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul In Heaven

listen back to our live- and dj-set via https://t.co/YpNAEuZhgf@BISradio pic.twitter.com/1Lq1Lvv80B

— CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - WWWATER (@adigerwww) February 6, 2020

oh cool!

Totally obsessed with Best Thing on the Belgica soundtrack

Obsessed doesnt explain it well. Been playing on repeat for hours. It’s by the soulwax guys. Film is awesome too.

https://afropunk.com/2020/03/charlotte-adigery-is-the-future

great interview

It is my duty to point out to all of you even remotely interested in Charlotte Adigéry that since a couple of weeks she's got her own weekly, two hour radioshow at Belgian StuBru. And my, does it bang! Her track selection is crazy good imo. Best thing is, she collects all the tunes she plays in this spotify playlist, updated weekly after the new show.

excellent! i like that she has 'blue pedro' on her playlist, i am all aboard with that

charlotte post to ilx

not only 'blue pedro' but 'shades' (my sadly-elsewhere-ignored #2 of 2020) and a load of other great stuff! tbf you only had to hear her EP to work out what a broad and careful listener she is

Yeah, she's brilliant, and a great companion as a dj. Probably the only linear radio time slot I follow religiously rn, every Sunday eve, she's the best.

Are the shows available on a listen-again stream anywhere? I tried and failed to find them on the website.

Seems the latest show is linked here, but I don't know if it's geo-restricted for you, or if it stays there for long (there's only one afaic)

Thanks!

Unsurprisingly she has great taste

revived the Old School Afropop thread because of this

not sure if we've discussed it, but her one-track guided meditation album is interesting

Live show for Wales' Gwyl Festival (filmed in Antwerp rather than Cardiff)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emb5q9/play/p097xvvn

Awwww, thank you!

New single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0X4Z90B8o

this is great, she's getting so good at counterpoint

that string part completely makes it

Happy St. Patenipatrick's day!

this is sounding very good yes obv

her lyrics are finding new levels of impudence, there have been involuntary chuckles

I'd forgotten.

This sounds terrific.

glorious album

'Hey' is a choooooon

Every record we release on Deewee is special to us because they’re born out of our genuine friendships with the artists but we have to admit we feel a little extra pride to see Charlotte & Bolis, two individual great talents and human beings - whom we’ve had the pleasure to introduce to each other literally within the walls of our studio - grow into this powerful duo and see their debut album TOPICAL DANCER which we made with them over the course of the last few years, come out today

Damn this is great

As noted in the 77, I think these guys are some of the most vital and enjoyable artists making pop music right now

Their songs are outrageously, baldly political protest music with intelligent and clever lyrics and yet they’re also all bangers. The degree of difficulty there is super high.

I find the humour and personality of this does so much more for me than the straightforward didacticism of eg Sault

^ding ding ding

I have had this on repeat, loving the punchy sparse production and as mentioned earlier, there are some great witty lyrics in there. Favourite album of the year so far.

"Blenda" is an ear worm, eh?

Dangerously so - since hearing it in the top 77 tracks playlist I’ve found myself singing it to myself.

Out of context, randomly singing ‘go back to the country where you come from’ and nothing else is a problem waiting to happen. Damn catchy political bangers.

STEPHAN
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Ooh this is out now! I know what I’ll spend my afternoon listening to. Love everything they’ve done so far.

yeah this is really good

lol i was thinking "this is very talking heads" right around the time i got to Making Sense Stop

Loved this on first listen, the singles make much more sense in the context of the album. This is super stylish and cynical, could be the soundtrack to some high fashion runway.

just realized "Bear With Me" isn't on here.

The programming is sleek and burbly and A+.

BNM'd on p4k today:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/charlotte-adigery-bolis-pupul-topical-dancer/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/08/charlotte-adigery-and-bolis-pupul-interview?CMP=twt_a-music_b-gdnmusic
Nice interview. Didn't know that Pupul was Kamagurka's son! (a factoid probably lost on people outside of Belgium/The Netherlands)

this really holds up to a second listen, incredibly strong album. the lyrical games it plays are both straightforwardly witty and headspinningly complex; it's rare and great to see this sort of intelligence applied to, essentially, techno bangers. but then again the bangers themselves aren't so simple either; they're playful, tuneful and the production and structures are kept constantly interesting and fresh. wheels are not allowed to spin.

this'd make for a great ilm aoty, if That Lot decide to votesplit themselves

also, does liking this mean i have to like talking heads now

Are Big Thief releasing two albums again this year? xp

that is the if

just realized "Bear With Me" isn't on here.

Rough Trade's release (is on transparent vinyl and) comes with a bonus CDR w/ Bear With Me and five tracks from her two earlier EPs

Give me a vinyl version that includes the eps and I’ll pay double without thinking it.

Agreed. I need that debut EP.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/101309-003-A/charlotte-adigery-bolis-pupul/

Finally got 'round to this - loved it, and hit replay the minute it stopped. Truly inventive and off-kilter dance music with no shortage of earworm melodies, big beats, and creative flourishes. Love how many different ways they use vocals! A+ sequencing, too.

top three of the year imo

Lots of highlights that I keep coming back to. "Ceci n'est pas un cliche" and "Mantra" stand out -- the latter gives me New Order vibes.

- me every time I open this app. pic.twitter.com/Sv0UVf8Jhj

— Rob Milton (@therobmilton) December 21, 2022

wondered how she performed that live, that's awesome

I finally figured out what this record reminds me of and had to bring it here cause no one outside ilm would get the reference but the Lindstrom & Christabelle vibes are strong

One of the late listens of the year for me.

As I mentioned to the friend who urged me to hear it, it does a very, very savvy and charming way of expressing sentiments that pop music usually is too didactic when it wants to make the same points.

live in Glasgow yesterday it felt like superstardom is in the post. It was in the top 5 wildest audience resctions I've ever seen, so much so that she was rendered speechless a couple of times by how loud the crowd were. Such a great performer (Bolis too).

well-deserved - it was a fantastic show. I was concerned that I would be disappointed after seeing them in a tiny venue last year when they killed it and was wondering if they would manage to bring that energy to a massive festival tent but they really knocked it out of the park. Two of my pals had never heard them before and came away raving about how great it was. stirmonster the whole weekend was brilliant actually :)

also not to objectify anyone in a way but I spotted Bolis in the crowd dancing later on and he really is just an incredibly handsome man, they both just ooze star quality and charisma

They’ve been working hard to get there, they’ve been performing live pretty much every odd day.

The Bolis solo album is ace. Mix of deeper home listening cuts and full on club bangers like this one


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7E9ZsGrK5E

Yes - was discussed briefly elsewhere, loving it

Video to Completely Half is great. Strong Wong Kar Wei vibes

Saw Adigery and Pupul live the other night - really excellent. They're great and charismatic performers of course, but what really stood out was how propulsive and thumpy the arrangements were over big speakers in a live setting. The sense of dynamics, especially in the lead-in to what were effectively drops, was really kinetic. The vibe of the way the songs would move in between pop songs and dance tracks reminded me unexpectedly of the last two The Knife albums (not a point of comparison I would have thought of previously).

Yeah, they make the most sense live for sure, not that the recording are bad of course.

Man, really need to catch them at some point. Pretty sure they've played here and I missed it (though that could have been a festival date)

saw them at Desert Daze in 2022, if that's what you're thinking of, was a great set, she was amazing live.

this is the track with adigery on the new bullion record. i really like it, it's like a more motorik jj cale trying to play 'dizzy dizzy' by can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3GQ-TxLd3k
Bullion - World_train (feat. Charlotte Adigéry)

I dig it :) Nice description too! His singing reminds me of Andy Oppenheimer.