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A 1000 Keys reconstructs the piano from a classical, pristine and prestigious device into a synthetic and irreverent trash compactor. Its notes now vibrate, clash, and explode with industrial frustration and malice. Listening to these songs is akin to hearing all classical sentimentality stripped and burned from the annals of this instrument's history and the reinsertion of a harsher, more defamatory history in its place; it has been marginalized as a machine of hate & causticity. Camryn Marquez
M'berra is a collective of Malian musicians living in the M’berra refugee camp in Mauritania and Khalab, an Italian electronic producer. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 23, 2021
Hailing from Leeds' burgeoning DIY jazz scene, The Fergus Quill Trio balance contemporary classical rigger with free-improv swing. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 22, 2021
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This album could easily have been just a less-than-reverential pastiche of its source material, or worse, an ersatz tourist piece that reduced the original Congolese musicians to mere drum-banging curiosities. Mercifully, Peder Mannerfelt has used modern studio technology to reinterpret and expand their extraordinary sound, the result being a remarkably cohesive and dynamic record that demands all the attention you can give it. Brilliant. Nic Brown