1905 gave the world the concert premiere of Claude Debussy’s La Mer. 1905 was also the date of an Austrian ethnographic expedition to Papua New Guinea that brought back sound recordings from the island.
120 years later, London-based DJ Nkisi (Melika Ngombe Kolongo) used those recordings as part of the fuel for her latest outing, Anomaly Index: 40 minutes of acoustic imperfections, club beats, and traces of the music that a few pre-1910 expeditions attempted to document. Suffice it to say, this sounds nothing like La Mer.
Nkisi is known for throwing wildly disparate influences into the pot. She has roots in Central Africa and has drawn on ethnographic material before. Performing in clubs, the beats…

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