Various Artists – Alternate African Reality: Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora (2020) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Various Artists – Alternate African Reality: Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit/44,1kHz | Time – 02:38:48 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Electronic
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Alternate African Reality is a follow-up to several compilations I have published on Syrphe since 2007 (the first one, Beyond Ignorance and Borders included various artists from Africa and Asia), and even earlier on my defunct tape label in the 1990s (the last tape, Archives Humaines vol.1, was published in 1996 and included 25 artists from 25 countries, including non-Western ones : South Africa, Japan, Chile, Brazil).

Alternate African Reality could be seen as a drastic improvement of 30.2, a compilation released in 2012. The CD included nine artists from Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Angola, Mauritius, South Africa, R’eunion and Madagascar/France. But even if I was very happy with the result, I always thought I should do a deeper research, and another issue I faced was the fact that I didn’t manage to include any women in the project.

Travelling and touring throughout parts of Africa allowed me to meet many more artists than what I ever expected and pushed me to work on this new release.
This time, the end result reveals a more global compilation that could be compared to Uchronia, a compilation that includes 49 artists and bands from 32 Asian countries and the diaspora in the field of so called experimental music.
Alternate African Reality is nonetheless musically more diverse, including abstract but also beat-oriented music such as ambient, electronica, electroacoustic, noise, singeli, bass music, industrial hip hop, etc.

It includes 32 artists and bands from 24 African countries and the diaspora, and last but not least, 14 women are among those vibrant musicians and composers.

Tracklist:
1. Mash – Sand Wave (02:38)
2. P”o – Laydo (03:52)
3. [MONRHEA] + Ejuku – 122.2.22.22 (02:24)
4. Jako Maron – Pendul’e (05:03)
5. Robert Machiri – Durban incursions (04:13)
6. Ujjaya – Jengi (06:43)
7. Ibukun Sunday – Awaken Your Third Ear Soundscapes (03:21)
8. KMRU – ib07 (04:16)
9. Cobi van Tonder – Mutation2 (13:02)
10. R’edha M – (06:32)
11. Aur’elie Nyirabikali Lierman – iota mikro (08:44)
12. Shadwa Ali – Requiem For a Grief (03:33)
13. Tiago Correia-Paulo – Entre Tempos (Primeira Revolucao) (05:22)
14. Jacqueline George – Untitled (05:02)
15. AMET – Waiting (04:20)
16. Hibotep – Acid Dairiah (07:35)
17. Aragorn23 – Trumpets of the Krell (04:22)
18. The Age Of Heroes – Amin 2 (03:32)
19. Beko The Storyteller – Black Coffee (02:01)
20. Catu Diosis – Choc Kedda (03:35)
21. Yao Bobby & Simon Grab – Ahojde (03:30)
22. Mario Swagga and DJ Silila – Party La Uhakika (Epic Party) (05:28)
23. AFALFL – uebuzz like (01:53)
24. Rey Sapienz – Votura (03:38)
25. Ibaaku – 21 (02:38)
26. Sukitoa o Namau – When I tripped and hit my head on the sink of the love hotel (04:41)
27. Victor Gama – Horizonte Suspenso #3 (02:57)
28. Luca Forcucci featuring Cara Stacey and Mpho Molikeng – E (05:54)
29. C-dr’ik – Year 2040, France is the last country on Earth to ban plastic bags (00:32)
30. Emeka Ogboh – Ojuelegba 2.0 (09:23)
31. Chantelle Gray – Devastating Side Effects (05:48)
32. Ski Crime – con(E)volution (extract) (12:19)

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