Lock it Down has been waiting for this album. Finally someone brewed an electronic psychedelic potion of of all those funky & freaky exotic records we love. Earlier, we already talked about the emergence of the LA scene around
Flying Lotus &
Gaslamp Killer and now the next chapter reveals itself: GonjaSufi’s album A Sufi And A Killer, produced by
the Gaslampkiller, was released on Warp records last month (
check them here on Youtube).
Gonjasufi also provided vocals on the
Flying Lotus track
Testament (on the
Los Angeles album), but his own release really did it for me. Captivating yet uneasy, freaky, funky, dark but spiritual. In touch with the past, but as uptodate as it gets. The Sound of Urgency. Once in a a while a record comes along which sums up the stuff you like, and combines it in a way you hadn’t heard before. A Sufi and A Killer is a record like that.
Gonjasufi spits his distorted lyrics over beats filled with sound from records we love. The Turkish psychrock legend
Erkin Koray is heard various times, his tune
Yagmur is versioned into
Kobwebz and
Seni Her Gordugumde (aka
I’nan Ki) into
I’ve Given. Both
Erkin Koray tracks are featured on his 1973 album on Istanbul records. As a great fan of Spanish seventies flamenco-hybrids I was thrilled to hear the voice of
Las Grecas in the single
Cowboys & Indians, sampling their 1974 tune
Bella Kali (from their classic first album
Gipsy Rock). L.A.'s
Spirit gave their
The Other Song (from
Son of Spirit, 1976) for Gonja to recycle it to
Dust. It seems he's putting a band together as we speak, can't wait to experience this in a live setting. Check out this little mix by
Anikulapo, combining the Sufi songs with the originals.
Obviously, there tons more of samples, if anyone has any more suggestions, I’d love to hear it
And remember to buy this album!
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