HHY & The Kampala Unit announce new LP ‘Lithium Blast’

Mesmerising and infectious, new track is features on the incendiary debut album

INITIATED BY musician and artist Jonathan Saldanha during his Nyege Nyege residency, HHY & The Kampala Unit is a futuristic exploration of a fresh, yet submerse territory in music mixing up dub, techno, traditional drumming and elements of trance over ghostly and unnerving cinematic passages.

A collaborative venture featuring visionary Saldanha on electronics and production, fierce trumpet player and ghetto activist Florence Lugemwa joined by percussionist Omutaba on hybrid drums plus the special appearance of the Kampala Prison Brass Band.  

A feast for the ear, Lithium Blast lures us into a layered synaesthetic cosmogony soaked in oneiric sci-fi atmosphere.

Physical in its tactility and effect and highly evocative, all tracks are a gorgeous blending of cerebral virtuosity, cosmic creativity, raw energy and visceral sensuality that is majestically sculpted with haunting marching sounds, mutating percussive rhythms, variations and reprises against cascading electronics and rich, technicolor textures.

A dramatic intensity builds up over time generating tension between rupture and stability, subtext and hyperrealism.

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