Terra Incognita [LP]

Akusmi – Terra Incognita [LP]

New album featuring Sarathy Korwar, Dud Kouate, Marysia Osu and more”Minimalism meets rave pentatonics”The Guardian, Album of the MonthMeditation level music – Benji B (BBC Radio 1)”A fiercely focused electro-acoustic masterclass, full of life-affirming zeal.”MOJO”Akusmi crafts a forward-thinking sound from a vocabulary of past futures” The QuietusCartographers and US multinational technology corporations might think theyve mapped out most of our big, beautiful blue planet, and yet theres always more to discover if you know where to look. French-born, London-based composer and musician Pascal Bideau takes this as his central premise on a new album of intrepid sonic exploration that delights in the sensation of being somewhere youve never been before. Terra Incognita invites us to seven faraway sonic imaginariums fusing global and spiritual jazz with life affirming minimalism into a hypnotic, polyrhythmic odyssey.This time, the albums sound palette is more vibrant, earthy and abundant, drawing inspiration from the radiating optimism and high-energy sources heard in Afrobeat, Highlife and Electronic Afro-pop music, sounding looser, free and primarily interested in raw sensations. Antithetical to the precise ostinatos and gamelan patterns of th(more…)A Waking DreamAnimaClub SubterraneaPleine Lune **Drongos FluteRain DanceDawning Dusk