The collaboration from Afrikan Sciences and Gaël Segalen will surface on the Edinburgh label with a self-titled LP in August.
Old Shady Grady & The Neighbourhood Character is the new collaborative project moonlighting for the next edition of The Wilderness Sessions.
The multidisciplinarian pair gets remixed by Afrikan Sciences, Thomas Bullock, RVNG Intl. and more.
Eric Douglas Porter has been on an increasingly prolific tip of late, gaining exposure for his craft while managing to be totally singular and independent of any particular movement or scene. He is of course affiliated to Aybee and the Deepblak stable, forming one of the central tenets of the Oakland label, but he moves in his own orbit much like the way Ras G holds his own space despite being an central figure in the Brainfeeder story. Even when he and Aybee collaborated for the sublime Sketches In Space LP earlier in 2014, Porter’s voice shone through true and tangible, arguably sending his collaborator’s reasonably loose sound out into the even braver frontiers in which Afrikan Sciences resides.
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The Bronx-based producer will release his third solo album on Bill Kouligas’ label next month.
The over-arching concept of Sketches Of Space feels like something of an inevitability. It’s perhaps the only time either Aybee or Afrikan Sciences, or indeed the Deepblak label as a whole, has served up something which can inspire sage, expectant nodding or some kind of internal “but of course” monologue, being as they are a creative force in electronic music that revels breaking new ground and plunging into the unexpected. Jazz and its boundary-less fringes has always served as a motivational point for Aybee and co. and yielded results both exciting and challenging along the way, and for this latest release they impart three years worth of live, improvisational jams undergone with the spirit of Miles Davis in mind.
Who wants their music to be easily signposted all the time? As Aybee’s Deepblak label gets ever bolder in exploring paths less trodden in rhythmic electronic music, so Afrikan Sciences returns to deliver an inimitable concoction of spanners in the works, conjuring up a wonderfully disorientating sonic experience in the process. His previous long player set the tone for abstraction hovering on the fringes of house and techno, shot through with the kind of ethnically rooted beat instinct you might find in Brainfeeder’s Ras G. While there are plenty of producers that can work with polyrhythms and syncopation in their methodical arrangements, it’s a different beast to authentically channeling the lilt and roll of hand-drummed, multi-limbed percussion.
The Oakland-based producer will release his second album on the Deepblak label run by Aybee next month.