Space Afrika - Quiet Storm - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Space Afrika, the Manchester/Berlin-based duo of Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, make raw, intensely detailed, visceral music with shades of ambient, trip-hop, techno, and modern classical, drawing spacious urban dubscapes from the contours of their city. Quiet Storm expands on their sound and scale as a sprawling, collaborative vision shaped with profound patience and intention, embedding their own coming-of-age story within a moving suite of cathartic abstraction. Songs allude to spirituality and the human condition, the tension between boldness and softness, ambition and persistent inner demons.Quiet Storm is a response to the duo's trajectory since the of 2021's Honest Labour. InchWe challenged ourselves and our own notions of identity, around class and diaspora, and how that is represented across musical genres. We wanted to show the characteristics of our project through the people we chose to work with,Inch says Reid. Inyang notes, InchThere's no compromise in how we've made this album. The idea started as a celebration of Black artistry. Our collaborations have been very intentional, as we discovered the pillars of the story.InchSpeaking to the multidisciplinary nature of the project is the involvement of celebrated artist Glenn Ligon, whose work deals with Black identity and queerness. A central inspiration at the onset of recording, Ligon offered his work Figure #30 (2009) for the cover artwork, and following the completion of recording, he agreed to provide the project's name - an unprecedented gesture from the pioneering artist. Listening to the final sequence, Ligon thought of InchQuiet Storm,Inch the 1970s radio known for smooth, late-night programming with themes of life and love. Quiet Storm brings the listener through various scenes, interludes, and arcs, marked by a sense that it's movement is fluid and it's characters are fleeting. Into-t