These four tracks of what I’m persisting in calling call post-footwork are a huge amount of fun. The cascading beats do their thing, blurring the lines between competitive street-dancing culture and ecstatic tribal rhythms, while curlicues of melodies that ricochet with gay abandon around a small orchestra dart in and out over the top. There […]
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This record opens rather arrestingly with a song whose lyrics are more-or-less nonsense verse in Mandarin, sung to the tune of Nothing Compares 2 U, accompanied by little more than a synthesized celestial choir. The effect is rather surreal, but the significance is clear: Al Qadiri (who is Kuwaiti, born to Russian-educated parents in Senegal, […]
