Nazar
Open / Anticipate
Boomkat Product Review:
Angolan phenom Nazar perfectly defies expectations with his stunning first new works in 5 years, swapping “rough kuduro” for vocal-led, trippy Afrobeats/batida sensuality, like fellow kuduro mutator Nídia jamming with Dawuna at Burial’s - aye it’s all that and more.
Active for a decade now, Nazar arguably became one of African electronic music’s leading protagonists off the back of 2018’s ‘Enclave’ EP and related ‘Guerilla’ LP, which told the story of his father’s role in the Angolan civil war, set to ravishing sound design and some of the deadliest beats of the decade. Collabs with everyone from Brodinski to Shapednoise followed into 2020, then nowt for ages, ’til now, as Nazar duly flips expectations with uniquely compelling first signs of his 2nd album, most notably introducing his strikingly soft and mellifluous voice, laced into lip-bitingly sexy, psychedelic swerve.
The couplet of ‘Open’ & ‘Anticipate’ perhaps identify an artist who is in the process of emerging from an imaginary chrysalis. The aggressive attack and shearing tekkerz of prior Nazar is replaced by almost hallucinogenic sensuality, ditching bellicose mise-en-scene for micro dosed patina of fractals on ‘Open’, where his vocals resemble the soulful sampler chicanery of ‘Untrue’ era Burial, but with the synthetic psychoacoustic perception of Florian Hecker - deeply, brilliantly weird stuff - and ‘Anticipate’ brings the vox farther fwd in the mix, on a bed of sloshing batida meets garage-techno-trance engineering, like Nídia’s oddest creations feathered by Arca.
For anyone distinctly missing the thrill of the new, the frisson of the unknown or unexplored in contemporary music: this one’s you. Roll on the album, pronto.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Angolan phenom Nazar perfectly defies expectations with his stunning first new works in 5 years, swapping “rough kuduro” for vocal-led, trippy Afrobeats/batida sensuality, like fellow kuduro mutator Nídia jamming with Dawuna at Burial’s - aye it’s all that and more.
Active for a decade now, Nazar arguably became one of African electronic music’s leading protagonists off the back of 2018’s ‘Enclave’ EP and related ‘Guerilla’ LP, which told the story of his father’s role in the Angolan civil war, set to ravishing sound design and some of the deadliest beats of the decade. Collabs with everyone from Brodinski to Shapednoise followed into 2020, then nowt for ages, ’til now, as Nazar duly flips expectations with uniquely compelling first signs of his 2nd album, most notably introducing his strikingly soft and mellifluous voice, laced into lip-bitingly sexy, psychedelic swerve.
The couplet of ‘Open’ & ‘Anticipate’ perhaps identify an artist who is in the process of emerging from an imaginary chrysalis. The aggressive attack and shearing tekkerz of prior Nazar is replaced by almost hallucinogenic sensuality, ditching bellicose mise-en-scene for micro dosed patina of fractals on ‘Open’, where his vocals resemble the soulful sampler chicanery of ‘Untrue’ era Burial, but with the synthetic psychoacoustic perception of Florian Hecker - deeply, brilliantly weird stuff - and ‘Anticipate’ brings the vox farther fwd in the mix, on a bed of sloshing batida meets garage-techno-trance engineering, like Nídia’s oddest creations feathered by Arca.
For anyone distinctly missing the thrill of the new, the frisson of the unknown or unexplored in contemporary music: this one’s you. Roll on the album, pronto.
Boomkat Product Review:
Angolan phenom Nazar perfectly defies expectations with his stunning first new works in 5 years, swapping “rough kuduro” for vocal-led, trippy Afrobeats/batida sensuality, like fellow kuduro mutator Nídia jamming with Dawuna at Burial’s - aye it’s all that and more.
Active for a decade now, Nazar arguably became one of African electronic music’s leading protagonists off the back of 2018’s ‘Enclave’ EP and related ‘Guerilla’ LP, which told the story of his father’s role in the Angolan civil war, set to ravishing sound design and some of the deadliest beats of the decade. Collabs with everyone from Brodinski to Shapednoise followed into 2020, then nowt for ages, ’til now, as Nazar duly flips expectations with uniquely compelling first signs of his 2nd album, most notably introducing his strikingly soft and mellifluous voice, laced into lip-bitingly sexy, psychedelic swerve.
The couplet of ‘Open’ & ‘Anticipate’ perhaps identify an artist who is in the process of emerging from an imaginary chrysalis. The aggressive attack and shearing tekkerz of prior Nazar is replaced by almost hallucinogenic sensuality, ditching bellicose mise-en-scene for micro dosed patina of fractals on ‘Open’, where his vocals resemble the soulful sampler chicanery of ‘Untrue’ era Burial, but with the synthetic psychoacoustic perception of Florian Hecker - deeply, brilliantly weird stuff - and ‘Anticipate’ brings the vox farther fwd in the mix, on a bed of sloshing batida meets garage-techno-trance engineering, like Nídia’s oddest creations feathered by Arca.
For anyone distinctly missing the thrill of the new, the frisson of the unknown or unexplored in contemporary music: this one’s you. Roll on the album, pronto.
Boomkat Product Review:
Angolan phenom Nazar perfectly defies expectations with his stunning first new works in 5 years, swapping “rough kuduro” for vocal-led, trippy Afrobeats/batida sensuality, like fellow kuduro mutator Nídia jamming with Dawuna at Burial’s - aye it’s all that and more.
Active for a decade now, Nazar arguably became one of African electronic music’s leading protagonists off the back of 2018’s ‘Enclave’ EP and related ‘Guerilla’ LP, which told the story of his father’s role in the Angolan civil war, set to ravishing sound design and some of the deadliest beats of the decade. Collabs with everyone from Brodinski to Shapednoise followed into 2020, then nowt for ages, ’til now, as Nazar duly flips expectations with uniquely compelling first signs of his 2nd album, most notably introducing his strikingly soft and mellifluous voice, laced into lip-bitingly sexy, psychedelic swerve.
The couplet of ‘Open’ & ‘Anticipate’ perhaps identify an artist who is in the process of emerging from an imaginary chrysalis. The aggressive attack and shearing tekkerz of prior Nazar is replaced by almost hallucinogenic sensuality, ditching bellicose mise-en-scene for micro dosed patina of fractals on ‘Open’, where his vocals resemble the soulful sampler chicanery of ‘Untrue’ era Burial, but with the synthetic psychoacoustic perception of Florian Hecker - deeply, brilliantly weird stuff - and ‘Anticipate’ brings the vox farther fwd in the mix, on a bed of sloshing batida meets garage-techno-trance engineering, like Nídia’s oddest creations feathered by Arca.
For anyone distinctly missing the thrill of the new, the frisson of the unknown or unexplored in contemporary music: this one’s you. Roll on the album, pronto.
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