Czech band Cankisou is one of the most distinctive Czech bands due to not only an impressive singer Karel Herman. Their music makes everybody dance and thanks to universal language of the Canki people is accepted anywhere in the world without any problems. Cankisou mixes influences from various ethnics with rock roots and with its rich collection of exotic instruments travels the world from Réunion island in an Indian ocean to Pakistan.
"Lé La is a greeting in Creole. When you meet someone you say „Komajlé“ and the person replys „Lé La“. Creole use the polite form of address so Komajlé means „How is he?“ and an answer Lé La means „He´s here.“ A special thing is that Creole is very close to Canki language."
New CD called Lé La is influenced mainly by many long journeys the band made in the last two years. Drumer Jan Kluka says: “I think Lé La CD is the most colourful and varied one. You can find there influences from Pakistan, Réunion and Ukraine where we have performed. Concerning our sound we used an electric quitar so much for the first time so some of our songs are harder a bit.” Lé La is the most energetic from all the Cankisou CD´s. Through melody created by singer Karel Herman´s remarkable voice and brass instruments you can feel international absorption of various cultures. Wild rhythms disturb your comfortable seating and listening to the music and make you dance till the last beat of the last song called www.bwindiorphans.org. At the same time this “craziness” still includes interesting music ideas and you can hear how the musicians are skillful. They have been together for nearly 10 years so their good coordination is obvious from the first tone. CD was recorded in G-studio in Brno with Jiri Topol Novotny. Mastering was done by Milos Makovsky.
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