What Heat

1. All the Way Home
2. Fanm (The Woman)
3. Lé An Gadé-w En Zyé  (When I Look in Your Eyes)
4. Réparasyons (Reparations)
5. Bòd Lanmé Pa Lwen (The Beach is Not Far)
6. Don’t Do It
7. Chambre à Échos (Echo Chamber)
8. Maison En Feu (House on Fire)

This heat: Bokanté and the Metropole Orkest, together. Two internationally acclaimed outfits made up of players at the top of their games. Music doesn’t get any hotter, or more accomplished, than this.

Bokanté: the fresh new super group founded by musician and composer Michael League, he of Grammy winningTexan-bred, New York-based instrumental jazz collective, Snarky Puppy. A super group of players from five countries and four continents, different genders, races and generations working in harmony, celebrating individuality. A band whose members are united in the belief that music should be a voice for the voiceless, a force for change against a rising tide of exclusion and indifference in a world that is, well, reaching boiling point.

The Metropole Orkest: that multiple Grammy-winning hybrid ensemble, part jazz big band, part symphony
orchestra, helmed by feted English conductor, composerand musician, Jules Buckley, and based in the
Netherlands. A specialist in all styles, with a deep understanding of music, the Metropole is at ease playing jazz and pop, traditional music and film scores and has collaborated with legends from Ella Fitzgerald to Gregory Porter and of course, Snarky Puppy, along with a veritable constellation of rising stars.

Listen to What Heat, to its earthy, almost rooted sound (think low brass, big strings, spiced up woodwinds), to the Creole and French-sung songs given life and magic by Malika Tirolien’s astounding voice, and it’s hard to believe that Bokanté was only founded just over a year ago, releasing a debut album, Strange Circles, that hinted at magnificent things to come. What Heat fulfills that promise, and then some.