life is too short to listen to old music
Ibibio Sound Machine
genre: Electronic
styles: Afro Psych, Afro-Funk
ABOUT THIS BAND
“Music is a universal language, but spoken language can help you think about what makes you emotional, what makes you feel certain feelings, what you want to see in the world,” says Eno Williams, frontwoman of Ibibio Sound Machine. When Williams uses both English and the Nigerian language from which her band’s name is derived for their dazzling new album Doko Mien, the group somehow produces a world of both entrancing specificity and comforting universality. A language entirely of their own.
Long lauded for their jubilant, explosive live shows, Ibibio Sound Machine fully capture that energy and communication on Doko Mien. In a glowing piece in the New York Times, those songs were praised for following “in the tradition of much African music, [making] themselves the conscience of a community.” By pulsing the mystic shapes of Williams’ lines through further inventive, glittering collages of genre, Ibibio Sound Machine crack apart the horizon separating cultures, between nature and technology, between joy and pain, between tradition and future.
Source [Spotify]Releases
Single
Got to Be Who U Are
out on January 31, 2024
via Merge Records
Single
Check Yourself (Ibibio Sound Machine Remix)
out on May 12, 2023
via Mawimbi
Single
Heroes
out on September 07, 2022
via Merge Records
Single
Protection From Evil (AK/DK Remix)
out on August 11, 2022
via Merge Records
Single
All That You Want (Joe Goddard Remix)
out on June 07, 2022
via Merge Records
LP
Electricity
out on March 25, 2022
via Merge Records
Concerts
