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Various Artists
2015-2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years of Sonic Explorations
Bongo Joe started in Geneva, in a shop that became a label, in a city far more complex than it first appears. Beneath its polished banking façade, Geneva is layered and unpredictable. Beneath the luxury storefronts, the UN buildings, and the watch boutiques, thrives a unique scene shaped by migration, cultural collisions, political struggle, and dissonant sound. It’s here that we learned to improvise, adapt, and stay independent.
This is where the label was born—above all, to put music back at the center, in a time when everything moves too fast, gets monetized, sliced up, and repackaged. In that landscape, we believe a label should remain a space for curation, for storytelling, for quiet resistance — a place where we suggest rather than impose.
Over the past ten years, we’ve built a singular catalogue — a mosaic of archival revivals, contemporary projects, and unexpected encounters. Three main threads have shaped it.
First, the compilation of music from the past. Not to claim it, but to keep it moving. To shed light on forgotten repertoires, marginal histories, musical legacies too rich to be overlooked. To help them exist again, with dignity, and reconnect with new listeners who might never have had access otherwise.
A1
Alain Peters - Plime la misère
A2
Altın Gün - Goca Dünya
A3
The Mauskovic Dance Band - Bukaroo Bank
A4
Esplendor Geométrico - Moscu Esta Helado
A5
Hyperculte - Temps Mort
A6
Madalitso Band - Wandiputa Dala
B1
Meridian brothers - Puya Del Empresario
B2
Derya Yıldırım - Nem Kaldi
B3
Noureddine Staifi - Zine Ezzinet
B4
Cyril Cyril - Les Gens (Radio Edit)
B5
Africa Negra - Zimbabwe
C1
YĪN YĪN - One Inch Punch
C2
Les Abranis - Chenar le blues
C3
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Breath
C4
Coco Maria - Me Veo Volar
C5
AMAMI - Ivory (Radio Edit)
D1
Lalalar - Abla Deme Lazım Olur
D2
Nusantara Beat - Djanger
D3
Yalla Miku - Asmazate
D4
Chouk Bwa Libète - Amounay (Radio Edit)
D5
Sami Galbi - K55 Dakchi Hani
D6
Baby's Berserk - What I Mean
D7
Dressed Up Animals - Mondtanz





