The Bongolian

Musician

Forlisteners of instrumental funk, acid-jazz, psychedelic and world-influenced electronic music; fans of moog-driven grooves and cinematic soundtrack-style compositions.
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The Profile

The Bongolian is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Nasser Bouzida, frontman of Big Boss Man. The project began in 2001 and blends funk, acid-jazz, dub, psychedelia and worldbeat. By 2016 the project had released five albums and toured in the United States, UK and Europe; Bouzida has also collaborated with Fay Hallam.

Nasser Bouzida performs as The Bongolian; solo project started in 2001; frontman of Big Boss Man; has released multiple solo albums including Bongos For Beatniks and Moog Maximus; toured in the US, UK and throughout Europe; collaborated with Fay Hallam on Lost In Sound.

The provided review praises The Bongolian's Moog Maximus as a richly eclectic, Moog-heavy album blending funk, acid-jazz, dub, Latin and psychedelic elements. It highlights Nasser Bouzida's long-running solo project (started 2001) and positions this fifth album as one of the year's best while noting limited exposure in Italy. The review describes the record track-by-track and emphasizes its cinematic, groove-driven character.

Notable Quotes

❝ Every new album by Bongolian should be accompanied by a sort of presentation made of kaleidoscopic lights accompanied by the blare of trumpets over a groove-sound in a Latin prog-psychedelic sauce and on a dance floor where Indian girls dressed in all colors dance the bharatanatyam thus expressing their kindness and all their spirituality, their joy of living and the sense of communion with the earth and space, while gigantic bubblegum bounce up and down around us who stand in the middle and at the center of this microcosm apparent universe with incense burning all around the aromas of the temples of Jerusalem.