Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground
Jantra
Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground
Boomkat Product Review:
Whew what a find?! NYC’s Ostinato extend an unmissable intro to Jantra’s custom-modded synth meditations, coming off like Hailu Mergia meets Luka Productions and Augustus Pablo on Planet X
Jantra, meaning “craziness”, hails from the Fashaga region between Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, where he improvises ribboning melodies over swaying triplet grooves on keyboard modified to play the traditional scales of local music. Regularly performing at street raves to pistol-toting dancers, Jantra, or Jaglara, as he’s also known, is a sort of comic bard who has become a cult figure in his locale, and now set for international acclaim with ‘Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground’, a richly immersive 10-track suite pieced together from older recordings and recent performances, each parsed for their midi data by boffins at Obstinate, and regenerated as this remarkable release.
The ‘DarGoog Intro’ and a ‘Jaglara Interlude’ characterise the fidelity of the original recordings, while the rest of the set properly blooms in full colour between the mesmerising sway of ‘Homoom’, sultrier moonlit vibes on ’Shabal’, and its outstanding closer of mind-weaving keyboard fanfare and cosmic reggae lilt. No brainer! Must check!! Peace to Sudan!!!
“Jantra has no songs. He simply freestyles a combination of his melodies incessantly for hours on end, acting as a live producer and DJ for emphatic crowds in compact spaces, where the energy of his 155-168 BPM music is known to inspire the odd gunslinger to raise his pistol in the middle of the dance floor, ready to fire away a few shots into the air when the build up reaches climax.
His Yamaha keyboard, like most keyboards, is not made in Africa and not tuned to cater to Sudanese rhythms or melodies. It required special tweaks from legendary keyboard mechanics in Omdurman market outside of the capital Khartoum who service, maintain, and jolt these synths to work for their aesthetics and flavor profile. Jantra then further tweaks the sound to achieve what you’re hearing — the perfect, sweet key tone, literally universal in its appeal.
To produce this album, the Ostinato team pioneered a new approach: a hybrid reissue-contemporary album. Jantra had made a few cassette and digital recordings in his early days. We used excerpts from those and followed him to his legendary parties on the outskirts of the outskirts of the capital. Using a special technique devised by Ostinato producer Janto Koité, we extracted the individual melodic patterns, rhythms, as well as the MIDI data, and combined them with older recordings to recreate his lengthy sessions into individual dance tracks for a worldwide audience to reach the enviable frenzy of Sudanese crowds. This promising new dance music emerging from the deepest reaches of Sudan has never made its way outside of Jantra’s parties, let alone outside of the country, and never been professionally recorded.
This record is confirmation that the many electronic styles being exported from Africa have a new worthy sibling and rival — Jantra’s signature electronic Jaglara from the Fashaga underground. It is a privilege of the highest order to be exposed to this unheralded, incredibly well kept rural Sudanese secret. Use unsparingly at your next party.”
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Boomkat Product Review:
Whew what a find?! NYC’s Ostinato extend an unmissable intro to Jantra’s custom-modded synth meditations, coming off like Hailu Mergia meets Luka Productions and Augustus Pablo on Planet X
Jantra, meaning “craziness”, hails from the Fashaga region between Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, where he improvises ribboning melodies over swaying triplet grooves on keyboard modified to play the traditional scales of local music. Regularly performing at street raves to pistol-toting dancers, Jantra, or Jaglara, as he’s also known, is a sort of comic bard who has become a cult figure in his locale, and now set for international acclaim with ‘Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground’, a richly immersive 10-track suite pieced together from older recordings and recent performances, each parsed for their midi data by boffins at Obstinate, and regenerated as this remarkable release.
The ‘DarGoog Intro’ and a ‘Jaglara Interlude’ characterise the fidelity of the original recordings, while the rest of the set properly blooms in full colour between the mesmerising sway of ‘Homoom’, sultrier moonlit vibes on ’Shabal’, and its outstanding closer of mind-weaving keyboard fanfare and cosmic reggae lilt. No brainer! Must check!! Peace to Sudan!!!
“Jantra has no songs. He simply freestyles a combination of his melodies incessantly for hours on end, acting as a live producer and DJ for emphatic crowds in compact spaces, where the energy of his 155-168 BPM music is known to inspire the odd gunslinger to raise his pistol in the middle of the dance floor, ready to fire away a few shots into the air when the build up reaches climax.
His Yamaha keyboard, like most keyboards, is not made in Africa and not tuned to cater to Sudanese rhythms or melodies. It required special tweaks from legendary keyboard mechanics in Omdurman market outside of the capital Khartoum who service, maintain, and jolt these synths to work for their aesthetics and flavor profile. Jantra then further tweaks the sound to achieve what you’re hearing — the perfect, sweet key tone, literally universal in its appeal.
To produce this album, the Ostinato team pioneered a new approach: a hybrid reissue-contemporary album. Jantra had made a few cassette and digital recordings in his early days. We used excerpts from those and followed him to his legendary parties on the outskirts of the outskirts of the capital. Using a special technique devised by Ostinato producer Janto Koité, we extracted the individual melodic patterns, rhythms, as well as the MIDI data, and combined them with older recordings to recreate his lengthy sessions into individual dance tracks for a worldwide audience to reach the enviable frenzy of Sudanese crowds. This promising new dance music emerging from the deepest reaches of Sudan has never made its way outside of Jantra’s parties, let alone outside of the country, and never been professionally recorded.
This record is confirmation that the many electronic styles being exported from Africa have a new worthy sibling and rival — Jantra’s signature electronic Jaglara from the Fashaga underground. It is a privilege of the highest order to be exposed to this unheralded, incredibly well kept rural Sudanese secret. Use unsparingly at your next party.”
Boomkat Product Review:
Whew what a find?! NYC’s Ostinato extend an unmissable intro to Jantra’s custom-modded synth meditations, coming off like Hailu Mergia meets Luka Productions and Augustus Pablo on Planet X
Jantra, meaning “craziness”, hails from the Fashaga region between Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, where he improvises ribboning melodies over swaying triplet grooves on keyboard modified to play the traditional scales of local music. Regularly performing at street raves to pistol-toting dancers, Jantra, or Jaglara, as he’s also known, is a sort of comic bard who has become a cult figure in his locale, and now set for international acclaim with ‘Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground’, a richly immersive 10-track suite pieced together from older recordings and recent performances, each parsed for their midi data by boffins at Obstinate, and regenerated as this remarkable release.
The ‘DarGoog Intro’ and a ‘Jaglara Interlude’ characterise the fidelity of the original recordings, while the rest of the set properly blooms in full colour between the mesmerising sway of ‘Homoom’, sultrier moonlit vibes on ’Shabal’, and its outstanding closer of mind-weaving keyboard fanfare and cosmic reggae lilt. No brainer! Must check!! Peace to Sudan!!!
“Jantra has no songs. He simply freestyles a combination of his melodies incessantly for hours on end, acting as a live producer and DJ for emphatic crowds in compact spaces, where the energy of his 155-168 BPM music is known to inspire the odd gunslinger to raise his pistol in the middle of the dance floor, ready to fire away a few shots into the air when the build up reaches climax.
His Yamaha keyboard, like most keyboards, is not made in Africa and not tuned to cater to Sudanese rhythms or melodies. It required special tweaks from legendary keyboard mechanics in Omdurman market outside of the capital Khartoum who service, maintain, and jolt these synths to work for their aesthetics and flavor profile. Jantra then further tweaks the sound to achieve what you’re hearing — the perfect, sweet key tone, literally universal in its appeal.
To produce this album, the Ostinato team pioneered a new approach: a hybrid reissue-contemporary album. Jantra had made a few cassette and digital recordings in his early days. We used excerpts from those and followed him to his legendary parties on the outskirts of the outskirts of the capital. Using a special technique devised by Ostinato producer Janto Koité, we extracted the individual melodic patterns, rhythms, as well as the MIDI data, and combined them with older recordings to recreate his lengthy sessions into individual dance tracks for a worldwide audience to reach the enviable frenzy of Sudanese crowds. This promising new dance music emerging from the deepest reaches of Sudan has never made its way outside of Jantra’s parties, let alone outside of the country, and never been professionally recorded.
This record is confirmation that the many electronic styles being exported from Africa have a new worthy sibling and rival — Jantra’s signature electronic Jaglara from the Fashaga underground. It is a privilege of the highest order to be exposed to this unheralded, incredibly well kept rural Sudanese secret. Use unsparingly at your next party.”
Boomkat Product Review:
Whew what a find?! NYC’s Ostinato extend an unmissable intro to Jantra’s custom-modded synth meditations, coming off like Hailu Mergia meets Luka Productions and Augustus Pablo on Planet X
Jantra, meaning “craziness”, hails from the Fashaga region between Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, where he improvises ribboning melodies over swaying triplet grooves on keyboard modified to play the traditional scales of local music. Regularly performing at street raves to pistol-toting dancers, Jantra, or Jaglara, as he’s also known, is a sort of comic bard who has become a cult figure in his locale, and now set for international acclaim with ‘Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground’, a richly immersive 10-track suite pieced together from older recordings and recent performances, each parsed for their midi data by boffins at Obstinate, and regenerated as this remarkable release.
The ‘DarGoog Intro’ and a ‘Jaglara Interlude’ characterise the fidelity of the original recordings, while the rest of the set properly blooms in full colour between the mesmerising sway of ‘Homoom’, sultrier moonlit vibes on ’Shabal’, and its outstanding closer of mind-weaving keyboard fanfare and cosmic reggae lilt. No brainer! Must check!! Peace to Sudan!!!
“Jantra has no songs. He simply freestyles a combination of his melodies incessantly for hours on end, acting as a live producer and DJ for emphatic crowds in compact spaces, where the energy of his 155-168 BPM music is known to inspire the odd gunslinger to raise his pistol in the middle of the dance floor, ready to fire away a few shots into the air when the build up reaches climax.
His Yamaha keyboard, like most keyboards, is not made in Africa and not tuned to cater to Sudanese rhythms or melodies. It required special tweaks from legendary keyboard mechanics in Omdurman market outside of the capital Khartoum who service, maintain, and jolt these synths to work for their aesthetics and flavor profile. Jantra then further tweaks the sound to achieve what you’re hearing — the perfect, sweet key tone, literally universal in its appeal.
To produce this album, the Ostinato team pioneered a new approach: a hybrid reissue-contemporary album. Jantra had made a few cassette and digital recordings in his early days. We used excerpts from those and followed him to his legendary parties on the outskirts of the outskirts of the capital. Using a special technique devised by Ostinato producer Janto Koité, we extracted the individual melodic patterns, rhythms, as well as the MIDI data, and combined them with older recordings to recreate his lengthy sessions into individual dance tracks for a worldwide audience to reach the enviable frenzy of Sudanese crowds. This promising new dance music emerging from the deepest reaches of Sudan has never made its way outside of Jantra’s parties, let alone outside of the country, and never been professionally recorded.
This record is confirmation that the many electronic styles being exported from Africa have a new worthy sibling and rival — Jantra’s signature electronic Jaglara from the Fashaga underground. It is a privilege of the highest order to be exposed to this unheralded, incredibly well kept rural Sudanese secret. Use unsparingly at your next party.”
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Boomkat Product Review:
Whew what a find?! NYC’s Ostinato extend an unmissable intro to Jantra’s custom-modded synth meditations, coming off like Hailu Mergia meets Luka Productions and Augustus Pablo on Planet X
Jantra, meaning “craziness”, hails from the Fashaga region between Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, where he improvises ribboning melodies over swaying triplet grooves on keyboard modified to play the traditional scales of local music. Regularly performing at street raves to pistol-toting dancers, Jantra, or Jaglara, as he’s also known, is a sort of comic bard who has become a cult figure in his locale, and now set for international acclaim with ‘Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground’, a richly immersive 10-track suite pieced together from older recordings and recent performances, each parsed for their midi data by boffins at Obstinate, and regenerated as this remarkable release.
The ‘DarGoog Intro’ and a ‘Jaglara Interlude’ characterise the fidelity of the original recordings, while the rest of the set properly blooms in full colour between the mesmerising sway of ‘Homoom’, sultrier moonlit vibes on ’Shabal’, and its outstanding closer of mind-weaving keyboard fanfare and cosmic reggae lilt. No brainer! Must check!! Peace to Sudan!!!
“Jantra has no songs. He simply freestyles a combination of his melodies incessantly for hours on end, acting as a live producer and DJ for emphatic crowds in compact spaces, where the energy of his 155-168 BPM music is known to inspire the odd gunslinger to raise his pistol in the middle of the dance floor, ready to fire away a few shots into the air when the build up reaches climax.
His Yamaha keyboard, like most keyboards, is not made in Africa and not tuned to cater to Sudanese rhythms or melodies. It required special tweaks from legendary keyboard mechanics in Omdurman market outside of the capital Khartoum who service, maintain, and jolt these synths to work for their aesthetics and flavor profile. Jantra then further tweaks the sound to achieve what you’re hearing — the perfect, sweet key tone, literally universal in its appeal.
To produce this album, the Ostinato team pioneered a new approach: a hybrid reissue-contemporary album. Jantra had made a few cassette and digital recordings in his early days. We used excerpts from those and followed him to his legendary parties on the outskirts of the outskirts of the capital. Using a special technique devised by Ostinato producer Janto Koité, we extracted the individual melodic patterns, rhythms, as well as the MIDI data, and combined them with older recordings to recreate his lengthy sessions into individual dance tracks for a worldwide audience to reach the enviable frenzy of Sudanese crowds. This promising new dance music emerging from the deepest reaches of Sudan has never made its way outside of Jantra’s parties, let alone outside of the country, and never been professionally recorded.
This record is confirmation that the many electronic styles being exported from Africa have a new worthy sibling and rival — Jantra’s signature electronic Jaglara from the Fashaga underground. It is a privilege of the highest order to be exposed to this unheralded, incredibly well kept rural Sudanese secret. Use unsparingly at your next party.”
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