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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow New music for 2023: Nyokabi Kariũki, the Kenyan composer using field recordings to conjure Nairobi from afar by Tara Joshi Jan 3, 2023 Kariũki’s intimate music summoned her home while she was stuck in the US during lockdown – and her darker new album delves into her experience of long Covid From Nairobi, Kenya Recommended if you like KMRU, Claire Rousay, Mica Levi Up next Debut album Feeling Body released 3 March via Cmntx Records “When we talk about art coming out of Africa, there’s this overemphasis on ‘complex polyrhythms’, or ‘call and response’,” Kenyan composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariũki says, rolling her eyes. “But I think it’s so much deeper than that. When you’re looking back on African music, so much of the thought and philosophy was erased during the periods of colonisation.” Continue reading... Continue Reading

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