Available Nov 16th on 12" Vinyl and Digital
TELESEEN - MANDRAKE
The new release from Brooklyn's Teleseen doesn't so much present a new direction as it does an introduction for those who have yet to discover him. Here is a warmer and more unique sound that is particularly apt in today's dub-influenced music scene. The title track "Mandrake" twists the horn melodies of Morgan Price from Ikebe Shakedown around a sweaty, stacked uptempo rhythm that recalls both the locked in rhythms of New York freestyle with the looser elements of Ethiopian Jazz and Afro-Beat. "The Real Enemy" delves deep into the dark side of dub, floating cut-up female vocals against at skittering drum machine pattern that finds its inspiration equally from darbouka drumming and breakcore. The B side heads in a more dancefloor friendly direction with "The Goldest Coast" opening up a truncated four to the floor groove to interference from riotous percussion elements alongside a chorus of birds recorded by Teleseen deep in a rainforest on the Caribbean island of Tobago. The closing track "By Many Names" adapts a rough raga riddim by incorporating both the calls of bullfrogs and electronic percussion.