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The Gangbe Brass Band has flipped the script on the standard military brass sound of colonial times by blending in the traditional rhythms of their homeland, Benin. Between jazzy jamming and polished big band charts, the Gangbe Brass Band serves up an extraordinary blend of voodoo rituals, songs sung in a variety of African dialects backed up by dazzlingly electric performances. On stage, their breathtakingly visual style takes the audience on a fascinating voyage of the unexpected – which often brings spectators to their feet with wild applause. The group first caused a stir back in 2001 with their guest appearance on Lo'Jo's album bohême de cristal. Whendo, the Gangbe Brass Band's latest release, continues the group's fascinating multicultural explorations with ten tracks of exuberant and inspiring music.

"In the band's dizzyingly gorgeous horn lines, rolling vamps carry sunny African chorales. and polyrhythmic voodoo grooves host harmonies that slide in all directions at once. The music just plain sings."
- Time Out New York

"This is something really something quite breathtaking, a bravura performance, going from roots to Cuba to jazz with total panache, all kinds of tasty association cropping up on the way. No excuse for ignoring this if you want your spirits raised."
- fRoots

"The band has the world in its grasp; its music leaps among the many ethnic traditions of its home, Benin, and beyond to Africa and the New World's African diaspora, seguing from traditional voodoo rhythms to jazz without missing a syncopated beat."
- The New York Times