#41 Feat. New Releases in Electronica

Adey Omotade, a sound artist and cultural cartographer rooted in Lagos and shaped by diasporic experiences in Paris, Johannesburg, Berlin and Ivory Coast, brings a rare sensibility to this work: walking between worlds, bringing with him the cadence of home and the dissonance of diaspora. A fixture on Johannesburgs live scene as drummer for The Fridge the influential neo-soul trio that launched the careers of two of SAs most talented male vocalists: Bongeziwe Mabandla and Samthing Soweto, releasing an album in 2011 Adeystalents have in recent years evolved to producing electronic music as a solo artist, inspired by ancient Yoruba tradition while striving towards something futuristic, a sound he calls Post-Afrobeat.Each track on his new albumEero : Eesuunfurls likeaso-oke, the celebratory fabric of the Yoruba people: drums that speak in polyrhythms, synths bending like waves, incantations layered like memory, fading then returning, gently like the water at the banks of the Osun River.

Adey Omotade