The first show in Mudd Up Radio’s new Wednesday night time slot is now streaming! SOAP BLEACH SOFTENERS. Gentle beginnings. New music from Cauto, Vladislav Delay, Ghanain gospel, Erothug, and, yes, Lana del Rey: WFMU’s Winter 2012 schedule shuffle means that, starting this week, Lamin Fofana will host a show right before me on Wednesdays! […]
Join us for an intimate night of sound & celebration on Saturday, December 3rd @ Vaudeville Park in Brooklyn (L to Graham). Mint tea, dates, and homemade deliciousness will be served. We are celebrating the release of Nettle’s new album on Sub Rosa, El Resplandor: The Shining in Dubai. (get it at: iTunes Amazon Boomkat […]
Disingenuous Remixes by Lamin Fofana >recent remixes from Dutty Artz stalwart Lamin Fofana. _both remixes out now on Grizzly and Diskotopia Jay Weed On The Nile EP GRIZZLY009 March 2011 http://bit.ly/nk6m5u > Visionist Rock The Flock EP DSK003 July 2011 http://bit.ly/nOX8Eh
Let’s party! Â Next Sweat Lodge we’ve got some old and new friends joining us. Â 2Melo, who is part of Atropolis Cumba Mela crew has been heating up Brooklyn’s warehouses, boats and other strange places for the past few years and I’ve had a blast every time that I’ve played with him. Â It […]
Come out to Zebulon in Williamsburg tomorrow night for a live performance by Nettle (Jace/Rupture’s band of real musicians and noisemakers!) Yours truly will be adding extra bump between the live sets. Solo guitarist Piers Faccini will also be performing. Facebook RSVP here.
Nettle is a band I started in Barcelona which knows nothing if not change. This spring we will release an album — a soundtrack to a remake of The Shining, set in Dubai — on a label I’ve admired for awhile. (details soon…) This Thursday we’re playing a free show at Zebulon in Williamsburg. It’s […]
Lamin Fofana was born in the West African country of Guinea. When the political situation got bumpy, he moved to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where his routine involved listening to Goodie Mob and Organized Konfusion as well as attending Quranic schools/mosques. In 1997 Lamin’s family had to flee worsening conditions in Sierra Leone – losing friends, […]
Dutty Artz will release Lamin Fofana‘s debut EP What Elijah Said on September 21. Lamin has been steadily working on beats for the past few years, and he’s about to make a public birth. When we asked him to describe the music, Lamin sent us this sentence: “Yet, he would refer to the Mother Plane, […]
In 2008, after DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek had both returned to the US from Europe to settle in New York, they joined forces to start a record label and blog to provide a stateside platform for some of the music styles that they had immersed themselves in London, Berlin and Barcelona. By then, it […]
If you are still dreaming of the delicious food from Brunch Gozón last year, or if you didn’t get a chance to try it, we have good news for you! Brunch Gozón is back!
Back in November 2015, Chief Boima (in his role as Africa is a Country’s managing editor) curated three panels at the Pan African Space Station‘s library-of-people installation at the Performa 15 Hub in New York City. AIAC invited Dutty Artz’ DJ Ushka, York College Professor and writer Rishi Nath, and AIAC’s photo editor Zachary Rosen to host three podcasts on behalf […]
Tomorrow night October 1st, Picó Picante is hosting the release party for MPEACH’s debut album Malania at Cameo Gallery. We’re ready to take over the space with sets by #KUNQ artist/island industrial hermano False Witness and Riobamba, as well as a special flamingo guest to be announced oh so soon. Tickets are $5 in advance, and $8 at […]
My most recent release with Yacouba Sissoko, KoraNYC was a intense journey of doubt, fears, and listening — to the complexities of this rich melodic instrument, the Kora. This production got to a point where I was ready to give up. This is my experience with working with this historic instrument, my struggles with the production, and […]
I was recently a guest on Impose Mag’s Audio Imposition show, where the host Eric Phipps and I talked a bit about what’s next with Old Money, Shamans in Peru, and more. I got pretty hype in particular when the question of early influences came up, because it made me think back to old Kayslay CDs […]
