Bizi Gara is the debut album of painter/musician Baptiste Ibar. The album was conceived and recorded largely in the same small Brooklyn studio where he painted the “Disastrology Calendar” series for Michel Gondry’s 2006 film, “The Science of Sleep” In the corner opposite numerous completed and half-finished canvases are a computer, an acoustic guitar, a set of congas, a sampler, and various other instruments whose plucked strings, tapped skins and pressed buttons are collaged in much the same manner as the paintings.
  Baptiste loves to make people dance, and "Anxious", with its four on the floor and gripping bass line, will move even the most anxious to cast off inhibition and hit the dance floor. "Spider Bite," is an obvious obsession sung with a mysteriously cool detachment and "Make Love Again," a hymn-like waltz. For those who are first drawn to the words, Baptiste’s 15 songs sketch life through relationships, both intimate and societal. For those who are grabbed by the rhythms and melodies, the album travels from spiky, no-wave jitters to atmospheric gypsy cadences.