This is a taster of the forthcoming album by Kumo - Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) written, and produced by Kumo AKA Jono Podmore.

Over 15 years ago, while working on an album of music based on the dance rhythms of the time, my old friend Uli Gerlach asked if I'd ever thought of investigating earlier dance music, the Foxtrot, Charleston, and so on. The idea stayed with me and, as it has been for so many of us, the lockdowns provided a chance to finally research this music and apply the findings to my own work.

My first discovery was that the essence of this music is a far cry from the superficial glitziness of Strictly Ballroom or the geriatric end-of-pier dancehall. The truth is that these are all slave dances. They all derive from African American culture of the late 19th and early 20th century and carry with them the trauma of slavery and treasured remnants of African culture. 
 
The work culminated in  Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) and an accompanying full-color zine available here:

http://www.psychomat.com/slave-dances-seven-portraits-zine

"Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) is an immensely pleasurable, brilliantly sourced weave of rhythm, texture and repurposed, reworked sounds doctored up in his
South London home studio. It is, however, a vital tool for reflection on the
connective history of Black music, remaking connections which have been erased by the habitual omission by whites of black agency in music history and its origins.

There is the sensibility of the gallery of these pieces; one could imagine them as hanging sculptures, or mixed media works incorporating diverse visual elements and materials. However, there is none of the gallery’s white-walled, silent sterility about Slave Dances (Seven Portraits), which is bristling and teeming, kinetic, and, despite the sombre subject matter, joyful, playful even. Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) is as delightful as it is educational."

David Stubbs

Slave Dances

Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) Taster

The current music scene is great because of the places where music is made and the experiments that are repeated by each personality. For individual creators, it is much more valuable to have an environment where they can come into contact with a large number of personalities than to be spread.

Hailing from Essex, QUBIKS’s sound is a kaleidoscopic post-house clash of loops and glitchy percussive beats, overlaid with lush synths and subtle melodies. QUBIK first started creating electronic music in the late nineties with collaborations with Matt O’Brien and Alien. Solo tracks followed with several vinyl releases via Off Key Records.

One part of Control Voltage Events; running regular electronic music nights in Essex and organiser of the Chelmsford EMOM, links below.

MJELLMË aka swantje lichtenstein creates music in a transdisciplinary, improvised as well as choreographed and composed mode. their work is based on deconstructed language / voice recordings, channelling of sounds and the opening of spheric and healing spaces of connection. they are creating and hoping to recover from sexist, racist, violent and other discriminating wounds existing on this planet for too many people.

#systemic music #sound writing #ample poetry # sonic poetry 
#transtextuality #poetronica #verbophonia #performative sound #healing sounds #antiracism #antisexism #intersectional music #transdisciplinary art #liminal agencies #love

Visit my page : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Francesca-Bonci-Artist/505931792812087?fref=ts

sound~space emanates from a world seemingly on the edge of collapse, where empathy is all but extinct, language has failed, interaction reduced to ‘diss’ and ‘cuss.’ Using discarded frequencies, a sonic resistance creates militant meditations designed for spirit renewal, punctuated with pulses to facilitate bodily propulsion. Tonal analysis reveals tools required for struggle, both internal and external. 
Though you sometimes walk like living ghosts, mourning the future, know that beauty exists in places you wouldn’t dare to look

I make electronic music.  I'm always thinking about music, I'm a music addict.  I'm particular about synth sounds, and I don't use preset sounds.  I also love KORG's volca series and have "beats", "keys", "fm", "sample" and "modular".  I love KORG.  There is also "monopoly".  Recently, I've been making Vocaloid songs as well.  I would love to collaborate with you, so please feel free to contact me.

Japan-based techno producer/DJ comvert.
Exploring an immersive sound of dark, hypnotic grooves and spatial depth.