Zouratie Kone The Astral Synth Transmitters Zodu Were Vinyl

Hotly recommended if you're into otherworldly / outsider music with an unique approach and free spirit!Here, African griot traditions meet Brussels based electronic underground sounds and the result is mystic, fresh, moving and spellbinding! Zouratié Koné is from Burkina Faso and has devoted himself to his instruments, particularly the kora and ngoni, not only playing them but also building them himself. On the other side of the conversation, The Astral Synth Transmitters (Brussels based dj soFa elsewhere deploys a language of synthesizers, machines and distinctly leftfield production.Recorded in Brussels, Zodu Were grew from this exchange between two practices, two histories and two ways of keeping music in motion.The result is neither an exercise in preservation nor an attempt to simply dress traditional music in contemporary production. Zodu Were is built on the movement between acoustic and electronic, ancestral and futuristic, warmth and cold, human and machine.