NkisiUK/BE
Fusing foreboding trance tones and barbed gabber beats with unhinged Afrocentric polyrhythms, Nkisi’s sonic practice is conceptually rich and intuitively hyper-modern. Informed by her exploratory research in psychoacoustics, a Belgian doomcore upbringing and her soft spot for Bantu-Kongo cosmology, this rule-breaking sonic sculptress plugs into many moving parts to carve out bold electronic interpolations.
Style
Cosmic pirouettes in and around pan-African polyrhythms; serene sonic particles spiralling into full-throttle techno turmoil
Labels
UIQ, Arcola, Doomcore Records
Latest
7 Directions (2019)
More
She recently completed a dissertation and MA degree in psychosocial studies, which has informed her haunted acoustic investigations
Links
Nkisi - 7 directionsMUTEKs
Montréal: 2019