The Soniferous Garden/Rainfall On Red Earth - last 30 copies!

Auntie Flo "The Soniferous Garden" Video directed & illustrated by Lewis Heriz

The Soniferous Garden/Rainfall On Red Earth - last 30 copies!

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Brad Weber Auntie Flo does it again! Super into his work. Recalls a diverse palette, includes a lot of great collaborators and always makes his own mark!

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1.	The Soniferous Garden 14:18		buy track
2.	Rainfall on Red Earth 16:20		buy track
3.	The Soniferous Garden (Radio Edit) 04:02 video	info	buy track
4.	The Soniferous Garden (Drum Dub Feat Mame n'Diack) 06:46

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Brian d’Souza (aka Auntie Flo) brings together an international group of musicians to explore musical differences and celebrate shared visions across two extended tracks, recorded in the heat of downtown Kampala.

Produced and arranged over an intense, collaborative two day session at the Santuri studio as part of the Ugandan Bayimba arts festival in Kampala in September 2015, the project draws on Senegalese Sabar drumming, the plaintive notes of the Adungu (a Ugandan 10 string harp) and the vocals of Gio Kiyingi, underpinned by d’Souza’s arrangements and drum programming for two tracks clocking in at a healthy quarter of an hour each.

The title “The Soniferous Garden” is taken from the writings of Canadian composer and environmentalist R Murray Schafer, a concept he defines as “a garden or place of acoustic delights” – an aural space of retreat from the oppressive overabundance of acoustic information that characterizes the modern industrial world.

The two compositions are a response to this idea – drawing the listener into meandering, ever-evolving themes that weave in and out of a rhythmic base that is equal parts traditional percussion and electronic production.

The title track showcases the virtuoso Adungu playing of erstwhile Burnt Friedman collaborator Hakim Kiwanuka, and vocals from regular Highlife World Series contributor Giovanni Kremer Kiyingi whilst Rainfall on red earth (inspired by the vivid colours of the landscape around the studio) pushes the talking drum of Mama N’Dieck Seck Thiam to the fore.

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released January 24, 2017

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Brian d’Souza is an award-winning sound artist, DJ, music producer and live performer known for ‘taking World Music into the future’ (The Guardian).

Winner of the SAY Award for ‘Radio Highlife’ and Electronic Musician of the Year by Nordoff Robbins cementing him as a central figure in a ‘new strand of club music fusing electronic and world influences’ (The Wire). ... more

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