sinopsis
To mark its tenth anniversary, Bongo Joe releases Futur Simple, a collective re-imagining of the label’s catalogue that pushes far beyond the idea of a compilation. Here, there is no hierarchy between past and present. The entire archive — reissues, contemporary releases, unexpected detours — is opened up, inviting the label’s artists to dive in freely and reshape this shared musical territory.
The goal isn’t tribute but movement: letting each artist pick up any track, from any era, and make it resonate in new ways. The result is a record charged with freedom — faithful reinterpretations turned slightly off-axis, bold reappropriations, surprising shifts that reveal the hidden threads connecting the many scenes, generations and aesthetics that make up the Bongo Joe universe.
Forest Law pulls Citron Citron toward something intimate and anglophone; Cyril Bondi revisits Meril Wubslin’s L’eau monte with his daughter in a gesture of transmission; Conjunto Media Luna reinterpret Cyril Cyril, exposing long-standing underground affinities. Through these crossings, the record reveals what lies at the core of Bongo Joe: a taste for unlikely encounters, an openness to the margins, a curiosity for unspoken lineages.
Futur Simple doesn’t try to sum up ten years or point to a single direction. It’s a snapshot in motion, a way of saying that music never truly belongs to us — it circulates, transforms, is shared, and a label’s role is to accompany these dynamics rather than fix them. It’s an open, collective gesture that extends a conversation begun ten years ago in a small room full of vinyl, and continues today with its own sense of time.
Ultimately, Futur Simple offers a vision: inhabiting the future as a continuous present, shaped together, where voices meet, diverge, and recognize each other. A way to celebrate ten years without closing a chapter — by keeping the music in circulation.