PheliMuncasi – Izigqinamba (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:07 minutes | 348 MB | Genre: World, Electronic, Afrofuturism
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nyege Nyege Tapes
Durban-based gqom futurists Phelimuncasi continue unpicking their musical seams on this latest borderless statement, teaming up with Metal Preyers to venture further into the desolate unknown. The group met up in Nyege Nyege’s Kampala studio last year, where they spent three days engineering a sequence of tracks that turned the acts’ respective sounds inside out, stretching urgent vocals over mutating backdrops of time-stretched electronic drums, saturated noise and unstable synths.
Read morePheliMuncasi – Phelimuncasi: 2013-2019 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:01 minutes | 428 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nyege Nyege Tapes
Phelimuncasi are comprised of vocalist twins Makan Nana and Khera and Malathon. They formed in 2012 in the Mlaszi township of Durban South Africa, using Gqom as a vehicle for theatrical storytelling and social commentary. From early on they collaborated with genre defining Gqom producers DJ MP3 and DJ Scoturn to develop their signature style. Highly influential in the local scene their pioneering, vivid conversation-style vocals over dark brooding beats would later be emulated by many other acts.
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