"A 40-minute suite of continuous, repetitive drumming might not sound like the most accessible music but south Asian percussionist and producer Sarathy Korwar's latest album, There Is Beauty, There Already, turns this concept of insistent rhythm into strangely alluring work. Leading an ensemble of three drummers, Korwar develops a dense percussive language throughout the record's 10 movements, channelling Steve Reich's phasing motifs as well as Indian classical phrasing and anchoring each in the repetition of a continual, thrumming refrain."
"After an eight-year break, Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with a mournful collection of songs expanding on the Arabic-language, dub-influenced sound that has made her a staple of the region's indie music scene since the 1990s. Hamdan's voice is quiet and ruminative, singing tender melodies over the bowing strings of Hon and the rumbling trip-hop groove of Vows, while on livelier tracks such as Shadia and Abyss, she employs a wavering, yearning vibrato over north African synth lines and rattling electronic percussion."
"Mexican producer Debit has a knack for eerie reinterpretations of historical sounds. In 2022's The Long Count, she used samples of Mayan flutes to create a new electronically filtered musical language for the ancient instruments and on her latest release, Desaceleradas, she turns her attention to the 90s style of cumbia rebajada a slowed, dubby take on the shuffling Latin American dance music genre."
Sarathy Korwar presents a 40-minute suite of continuous, repetitive drumming that builds a dense percussive language with three drummers across ten movements. The work channels Steve Reich's phasing motifs and Indian classical phrasing while anchoring each movement with a continual, thrumming refrain that evokes ceremonial rhythmic repetition. Yasmine Hamdan returns after eight years with mournful, Arabic-language, dub-influenced songs featuring a quiet, ruminative voice and sparse production that highlights emotive songwriting across tracks like Hon, Vows, Shadia and Abyss. Mexican producer Debit reinterprets historical sounds and slows 90s cumbia rebajada into a slowed, dubby electronic approach.
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