... I met my friend Pascal Rioux from Favorite Recordings and told him about an amazing unreleased track I received months before, on a home-burned CD, from Esnard Boisdur. Among other beautiful songs, it contained one outstanding track, a mix of modern Gwoka and Zouk called 'Mizik Bel'... As Africaine 808, Dirk Leyers and I spent considerable time trying to re-create the composition of the original, respectfully slicing and re-arranging it, adding new instrumentation, and recording additional percussion and talking drum with our percussionist Eric Owusu (Pat Thomas/Ebo Taylor). -DJ Nomad, June 2019
