As the year draws to a close, we picked our favourite Albums of 2022.
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Le Guess Who?’s Who 2022: Asher Gamedze
There’s less than a month to go before Le Guess Who? takes over Utrecht. With over 150 artists set to perform, how do we make sense of such a monumental line-up? We made a list of the artists we’re most excited to see and asked them for their recommendations.
Asher Gamedze
Performing Thursday 10th November
Photo: Lungiswa Gqunta
South African drummer, composer, writer and activist Asher Gamedze is one of the most incredible and impressive musicians of today. Visionary and virtuosic, with a phenomenal adaptability to a wide range of styles, he relishes playing together and has performed and recorded with various artists and ensembles across genres like jazz, pop, rock, hip-hop and soul music. Gamedze first rose to worldwide prominence through his work with Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood in 2019. The following year he released his debut album as a bandleader, Dialectic Soul, an absolute masterpiece which was one of our Album Picks of the Year, and remains an active favourite. out side work | two duets is his latest musical offering, a conversational record of improvised duets with Xristian Espinoza and Alan Bishop. Needless to say we can’t wait to see Gamedze perform at Le Guess Who? and we asked him what other artists he is looking forward to seeing live. Read on to find out, with a few words from him.
Nancy Mounir
Performing Friday 11th November (as part of Hidden Musics)
“her recent album is one of the most interesting engagements with an archive of music that i’ve ever heard, it’s like a really fresh take on sampling. i really love the layers of history, and the warm and sometimes tense spaces between notes and various voicings that you can hear in the music. Very excited to see how it’s performed live.”
Master Musicians of Jajouka
Performing Thursday 10th & Friday 11th November (as part of Hidden Musics)
“Music from the Maghreb and particularly from Morocco has been very important to my own study of rhythm, music and spiritual practice. This group holds so much knowledge of a tradition that has been continually developing over many years, it will be an absolute privilege to experience them.”
Tumi Mogorosi
Performing Sunday 13th November
“Tumi is a dear friend and one of the most unique voices on the drum kit and as a composer in creative music today. The new album, ‘Group Theory: Black Music’, is fire!”
Le Guess Who? will take place 10-13 November. For the full line-up, tickets and more info visit leguesswho.com. And take a look at other artists we’re excited about picking their own Le Guess Who?’s Who.
Le Guess Who?’s Who 2022: Horse Lords
There’s less two months to go before Le Guess Who? takes over Utrecht. With over 150 artists set to perform, how do we make sense of such a monumental line-up? We made a list of the artists we’re most excited to see and asked them for their recommendations.
Horse Lords
Performing Sunday 13th November (Curated by clipping. and Animal Collective)
Baltimore quartet Horse Lords have a unique music style that feels both impeccably structured and spontaneous. Combining polyrhythmic grooves and a command of microtonality through prepared instruments, the band delivers an exhilarating sound somewhere between experimental rock, math-jazz, krautrock, post-punk, electronic music and African musical traditions. Formed in 2010, the outfit of Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher, Owen Gardner and Sam Haberman are releasing their fifth record this Autumn, Comradely Objects, and judging by its infectious, delirious and groovy introduction, they are firing on all cylinders. Renowned for their vibrant live performances, we wouldn’t want to miss them playing at Le Guess Who? for the world. So leading up to it, we asked them what artists they are most excited to see. Read on to find out.
Evicshen
Performing Friday 11th November (curated by clipping.)
Turner Williams Jr.
Performing Sunday 13th November (curated by Animal Collective)
Nancy Mounir
Performing Friday 11th November (as part of Hidden Musics)
Photo: Eslam Abd El Salam
Le Guess Who? will take place 10-13 November. For the full line-up, tickets and more info visit leguesswho.com. And take a look at other artists we’re excited about picking their own Le Guess Who?’s Who.
Nancy Mounir unveils third single, ‘Gannentini’, off upcoming album
Photo: Eslam Abd El Salam
As if we needed any more reasons to be excited for the release of Nancy Mounir‘s upcoming debut album Nozhet El Nofous, she has let loose a third single from the album titled ‘Gannentini’ featuring Zaki Mourad. It follows two previously released singles, the poignant and eerie ‘Ana Bas Saktalak’ featuring Fatma Serry and the otherworldly and entrancing ‘Khafif Khafif’. Listen to ‘Gannentini’ below and grab the album when it’s out on June 3rd through Simsara Records.
Nancy Mounir shares new single ‘Ana Bas Saktalak’ featuring Fatma Serry
Photo: Eslam Abd El Salam
Last month we heard and loved the otherworldly and entrancing ‘Khafif Khafif’, the first single taken from Nancy Mounir‘s debut album Nozhet El Nofous (“Promenade of the Souls”). Ahead of the album’s release on June 3rd through Simsara Records, the talented and versatile multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer has shared a new poignant and eerie cut called ‘Ana Bas Saktalak’ featuring Fatma Serry. Take a listen below.
Nancy Mounir announces debut album Nozhet El Nofous
Photo: Eslam Abd El Salam
A prominent name of Egypt’s independent music scene, Nancy Mounir is a talented and versatile multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer who plays various musical instruments including violin, piano, bass, theremin and the kawala, a traditional Egyptian bamboo flute. Following years of work researching female Egyptian singers from the early 20th century, she announced the release of her debut album Nozhet El Nofous, which means “Promenade of the Souls”. The upcoming record “explores microtonality, non-metered rhythms, and bold vulnerability through a musical dialogue between Mounir’s own arrangements and the sounds of archival recordings of once-famed singers”, explains the press release. “It explores the techniques and perspectives of a more freewheeling time period in Arabic music, before Arabic maqam (modal systems) and other musical foundations were standardized by the Middle East’s cultural power brokers in the early 1930s.”
Nozhet El Nofous will see the light of day on June 3rd through Simsara Music’s new imprint Simsara Records, and we can already hear the first otherworldly and entrancing single ‘Khafif Khafif’ featuring Saleh Abdel Hay.