press

" Lo'Jo has the power to mesmerise and delight with every tune. ('Au Cabaret Sauvage') is one of the great world releases of 2002."
Billboard

" 'Au Cabaret Sauvage' is the richest episode so far in the extraordinary journey of Lo'Jo."
Telerama (France)

" Lo'jo have shaken up French pop" Guardian

" This disc is a voyage into worlds of the imagination...an abundance of musicality and imagination" Evening Standard

" If Tom Waits divinded his time between France and Mali and collaborated with the Penguin Café Orchestra, this is an album he would have been proud to make" Financial Times

" Lo'Jo play a high-class multi-cultural pop which takes in French chanson, rock and Arabic or African influences, a mix that made them a huge success at WOMAD." The Times

" Not since Les Negresses Verts has a band whose music you could truly identify as "French" had such an impact abroad." The Guardian

" They have to be one of the best live bands in the world now." The Independent

"The band called Lo'Jo is so original that if they do not break through commercially it might turn out to be our fault. Our loss." International Herald Tribune

" There's nothing more exciting in French music right now than Lo'Jo." Libération (France)

" They're one of the French sensations in the field of world music. Moreover, their arrival here in Madrid follows a triumph at WOMAD in Caceres last weekend." El País (Spain)

" LO'JO are incomparable. The group cultivates all that is poetic and trancelike: Arabic melodies, Jamaican cross-tempos, Bohemian violin, African rhythms and funky beats. Everything weaves together and plays its part in a coherent whole. There's a magical sensuality here whose secret formula lies in the polyglot vocals which are multi-lingual to the point of Esperantism. At times you get the feeling you're being hypnotized by a fun-fair shaman but you keep dancing, shimmying and above all, dreaming about tribes, landscapes and far-flung flavours." Le Monde

" A Nordic, but hardly more temperate, version of Fela's afro-funk. Lo'Jo's music is crowded with nuances. At times they dive deep down to imaginary gypsy roots, or to an 'oriental' Arabic style of reggae and then suddenly a long flute solo stops the afro-beat rhythm dead in its tracks." Le Vif-L'Express (Belgium)