E-FAX009 - James Bangura (Art-E-Fax)

 

Title: E-FAX009 

Artist: James Bangura

Label: Art-E-Fax

Cat Number: 009

Genre: Breaks

A1: Cleanse

A2: Denita Junction

A3: Interpretive Dance

B1: Incoherent Response

B2: Silk Work

B3: Texts Of Murakami

James Bangura might be a relatively new name with a small discography, but on the strength of these releases he is in the process of establishing himself as the thinking persons’ cosmic stoner sound tracker. I say this because that’s how I feel while listening to his music, even in the depths of an early December evening in Suffolk. It’s dark outside and pouring down, but of course I’m not here. I’m off practicing primal scream therapy and doing double jointed yoga in the shadow of the Pacific coast. That’s how I’ve been rolling most of the year as it happens. I do love releases like this though: concise and dynamic with amazing range and imagination with a great use of samples and an unwillingness to be pigeonholed. Listening to this in December thinking that it’s never too late to release one of the most complete records of the year, then realising it doesn’t come out until January, so it’s never to early either.