Cosmic Soul Cosmic Dub

From Cosmic Silence in Belgium yesterday to Cosmic Soul and Cosmick Dub from Germany and the USA today. Nhii, Munich born and New York based, is a DJ and producer who builds some of his tracks around North African sounds, the superb Impermanence EP being a case in point. This one is much more club oriented, a synth based slow burner, dark and groovy. 

Cosmic Soul

Peaking Lights have been featured here before several times, a husband/ wife duo who met in San Francisco, moved to rural Wisconsin and then back to California. Lucifer, released in 2012, is a back catalogue highlight, a technicolour swirl of psyche/ shoegaze/ motorik/ synth/ dub. They reworked Lucifer into Lucifer In Dub as a companion album, a head spinning, sleepy headed blur of clattering percussion, dubbed out basslines and echo. 

Cosmick Dub

Impermanence

This came out in 2019 and came my way a few months ago. Impermanence is the title track from a six song EP, three original songs and three remixes. I don't know much about Nhii- the Bandcamp page mentions Morocco and the record label Shango is based in Greece but says it has roots in Cairo, Bombay, Tangiers and Ghana and uses the phrase 'Electronic Afrotropicalismo' as it's header. Nhii may be from Egypt, the instruments and arrangements sound North African but are according to the Bandcamp bio 'an unheard world music psychedelic trip'. On Youtube Nhii is said to be 'a bottomless journey of musical growth with no boundaries in a universal context... borderless powerful yet emotional electronic world music'. Outward looking, crossing borders, tripped out, hypnotic and very good, just the ticket as this country closes the door. Buy the whole EP here. 

Impermanence