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Lithium Blast

by HHY & The Kampala Unit

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about

Watch Video for Lithium Blast here: youtu.be/aCjGb9Zuosc

Incendiary debut album on Nyege Nyege Tapes by HHY & The Kampala Unit. Initiated by musician and artist Jonathan Saldanha (HHY & The Macumbas) during his Nyege Nyege residency, HHY & The Kampala Unit is a futuristic exploration of a fresh, yet submerse territory in music mixing up dub, techno, traditional drumming and elements of trance over ghostly and unnerving cinematic passages. A collaborative venture featuring visionary Saldanha on electronics and production, fierce trumpet player and ghetto activist Florence Lugemwa joined by percussionist Omutaba on hybrid drums plus the special appearance of the Kampala Prison Brass Band.

Properly a feast for the ear, Lithium Blast lures us into a layered synesthetic cosmogony soaked in oneiric sci-fi atmosphere. Physical in its tactility and effect and highly evocative, all tracks are a gorgeous blending of cerebral virtuosity, cosmic creativity, raw energy and visceral sensuality that is majestically sculpted with haunting marching sounds, mutating percussive rhythms, variations and reprises against cascading electronics and rich, technicolor textures. A dramatic intensity builds up over time generating tension between rupture and stability, subtext and hyper-realism. Mesmerizing and infectious.

credits

released October 22, 2020

Written, recorded and produced by Jonathan Saldanha

Percussions and Kingdom Rhythms - Omutaba

Trumpets - Florence Lugemwa

Additional horns - Uganda Prison Brass Band


Additional voice - Don Zilla
Additional synthetic sounds - Diogo Tudela

Additional editing - Nicolas Esterle
Recorded at Boutiq Studio, Kampala
Mixed at Angstrom Studio and La Savonnerie Studio, Brussels by Jonathan Saldanha and Frederic Alstadt

Mastering and vinyl cutting at Angstrom Studio by Frederic Alstadt


Designed by Daniel Martins & Joana Pestana

All rights reserved Nyege Nyege Tapes,

Kampala Uganda, 2020

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Nyege Nyege Tapes is a Kampala based label exploring, producing and releasing outsider music from around the region and beyond.

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