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VA // Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora 2xCD

VA // Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora 2xCD

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A publishing-focused label focusing on African and Asian writershoverflyIs in stock for the first time in Japan.This work is a compilation by 32 writers who are active on the African continent, and it is a piece that gives a glimpse of the ongoing African experimental music scene. KMRU, who announced his work from Editions Mego, also participated. 2-disc digipak specification.

Syrphe Other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more syrphe releases available at Tobira. 

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"Alternate African Reality is a follow-up to several compilations I have published on Syrphe since 2007 (the first one, Beyond Ignorance and Borders included various artists from Africa and Asia), and even earlier on my defunct tape label in the 1990s (the last tape, Archives Humaines vol.1, was published in 1996 and included 25 artists from 25 countries, including non-Western ones: South Africa, Japan, Chile, Brazil).

Alternate African Reality could be seen as a drastic improvement of 30.2, a compilation released in 2012. The CD included nine artists from Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Angola, Mauritius, South Africa, Réunion and Madagascar / France. But even if I was very happy with the result, I always thought I should do a deeper research, and another issue I faced was the fact that I didn't manage to include any women in the project.

Traveling and touring throughout parts of Africa allowed me to meet many more artists than what I ever expected and pushed me to work on this new release.
This time, the end result reveals a more global compilation that could be compared to Uchronia, a compilation that includes 49 artists and bands from 32 Asian countries and the diaspora in the field of so called experimental music.
Alternate African Reality is nonetheless musically more diverse, including abstract but also beat-oriented music such as ambient, electronica, electroacoustic, noise, singeli, bass music, industrial hip hop, etc. "
-syphe

artist: VA

label: syrphe

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A publishing-focused label focusing on African and Asian writershoverflyIs in stock for the first time in Japan.This work is a compilation by 32 writers who are active on the African continent, and it is a piece that gives a glimpse of the ongoing African experimental music scene. KMRU, who announced his work from Editions Mego, also participated. 2-disc digipak specification.

Syrphe Other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more syrphe releases available at Tobira. 

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"Alternate African Reality is a follow-up to several compilations I have published on Syrphe since 2007 (the first one, Beyond Ignorance and Borders included various artists from Africa and Asia), and even earlier on my defunct tape label in the 1990s (the last tape, Archives Humaines vol.1, was published in 1996 and included 25 artists from 25 countries, including non-Western ones: South Africa, Japan, Chile, Brazil).

Alternate African Reality could be seen as a drastic improvement of 30.2, a compilation released in 2012. The CD included nine artists from Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Angola, Mauritius, South Africa, Réunion and Madagascar / France. But even if I was very happy with the result, I always thought I should do a deeper research, and another issue I faced was the fact that I didn't manage to include any women in the project.

Traveling and touring throughout parts of Africa allowed me to meet many more artists than what I ever expected and pushed me to work on this new release.
This time, the end result reveals a more global compilation that could be compared to Uchronia, a compilation that includes 49 artists and bands from 32 Asian countries and the diaspora in the field of so called experimental music.
Alternate African Reality is nonetheless musically more diverse, including abstract but also beat-oriented music such as ambient, electronica, electroacoustic, noise, singeli, bass music, industrial hip hop, etc. "
-syphe

artist: VA

label: syrphe