MARK ERNESTUS' NDAGGA RHYTHM FORCE - KHADIM LP

Catalog Number: ND30LP

Label: Ndagga

Format: Vinyl

Artist: MARK ERNESTUS' NDAGGA RHYTHM FORCE

Release Type: EP

Genre: Experimental, Worldwide, Recommendations,

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MARK ERNESTUS' NDAGGA RHYTHM FORCE - KHADIM LP

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Khadim is a stunning reconfiguration of the Ndagga Rhythm Force sound. The instrumentation is radically pared down. The guitar is gone; the concatenation of sabars; the drum-kit. Each of the four tracks hones in on just one or two drummers; otherwise the sole recorded element is the singing; everything else is programmed. Synths are dialogically locked into the drumming. Tellingly, Ernestus has reached for his beloved Prophet-5, a signature go-to since Basic Channel days, thirty years ago. Texturally, the sound is more dubwise; prickling with effects. There is a new spaciousness, announced at the start by the ambient sounds of Dakar street-life. At the microphone, Mbene Diatta Seck revels in this new openness: mbalax diva, she feelingly turns each of the four songs into a discrete dramatic episode, using different sets of rhetorical techniques. The music throughout is taut, grooving, complex, like before; but more volatile, intuitive and reaching, with turbulent emotional and spiritual expressivity.

1. Lamp Fall
2. Dieuw Bakhul
3. Khadim
4. Nimzat