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8ULENTINA is an interdisciplinary artist, music producer and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York. Known for his dynamic DJ sets and music composition synthesizing a range of genres, geographies and tempos. He co-founded CLUB CHAI (2016-2021), a record label and curatorial platform with Lara Sarkissian and currently runs a SILLAGE, a platform for contemporary sonic artifacts. His NTS show explores the sounds that inspire his production process, focusing on experimentation, percussive intensity, and non linear storytelling through sound.

Birigwa

Birigwa

Birigwa has been played on NTS in shows including Wiggly World w/ Heaty, featured first on 28 August 2022. Songs played include Uganda.

Originally released in 1972, this album by the Uganda born Birigwa is one of the most unique and hard to categorize albums of afro-folk-jazz-blues-psych we've ever heard. Birigwa came to America to study at the New England Conservatory in the early '70s when he made this beautiful record, which falls somewhere between Tropicalia, pastoral South American psych, spiritual soul-jazz and eclectic blues, accented by his super versatile vocals which swing freely from deep to falsetto, playful to wonderfully weird to downright pretty. Backing Birigwa was a really strong band, his sound bolstered by the rich bass lines of Stark Reality member Phil Morrison and the perfect flute touches of Stan Strickland. Think of Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Devendra Banhart or Milton Nascimento, with one foot in Africa, the other dipping its toes in sonic waters flowing from all sorts of great and unexpected places.

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Birigwa

Birigwa has been played on NTS in shows including Wiggly World w/ Heaty, featured first on 28 August 2022. Songs played include Uganda.

Originally released in 1972, this album by the Uganda born Birigwa is one of the most unique and hard to categorize albums of afro-folk-jazz-blues-psych we've ever heard. Birigwa came to America to study at the New England Conservatory in the early '70s when he made this beautiful record, which falls somewhere between Tropicalia, pastoral South American psych, spiritual soul-jazz and eclectic blues, accented by his super versatile vocals which swing freely from deep to falsetto, playful to wonderfully weird to downright pretty. Backing Birigwa was a really strong band, his sound bolstered by the rich bass lines of Stark Reality member Phil Morrison and the perfect flute touches of Stan Strickland. Think of Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Devendra Banhart or Milton Nascimento, with one foot in Africa, the other dipping its toes in sonic waters flowing from all sorts of great and unexpected places.

Original source: Last.fm

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