Lamin Fofana - Unsettling Scores

Peak Oil

£28.60

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: PEAK17
Release Date: Nov 2022
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

A1. Tune of Departure
A2. A Symbol of the Withdrawn God Redux
A3. Erosion _ Whispers _a laminated shout
B1. Broken Time of Transition
B2. Rehearsal of Truth
B3. The Ocean After Nature
B4. Oily (Resurfacing)

The latest by New York-based producer Lamin Fofana further refines his cinematic dialect of fractured soundscapes, displaced rhythms, and tectonic unease. Unsettling scores aptly describes itself: grainy, bristling, and bruised, rippling with dread disguised as grandeur. The collection emerged from an extended reworking of his 2016 composition, “A Symbol of the Withdrawn God,” mining deeper into the piece’s “unvoiced fragments, shards, and utterances.” Other tracks were inspired by recent readings on climate emergency and its “specific implications for Black life, from hurricanes in the Caribbean to mudslides in West Africa.”

Fofana has spoken of his music as part of a “legacy of resistance,” spanning the roots of Detroit techno to the outer reaches of contemporary sound art as championed by his labels, Sci-Fi & Fantasy and Black Studies. His work here vividly embodies that spirit, seven hyper-textural transmissions of rumbling lament, shifting sands, and restless innovation, tracing jagged silhouettes of indeterminate futures: “The instability is worldwide.”