Dirtmusic — Lion City

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• 0 Sota Mar 20, 2015

  Lion City a Dirtmusic album, is culled from the same Bamako sessions as Troubles but offers a decidedly different atmosphere and ambiance. While the Ben Zabo band is still the core collaborator, the textures and tempos are slower and more opaque. Organics and electronics intertwine and unfold unpredictably. There are less guitars and more liquid sounds. The outward frustration and fear documented on the previous album has given way to something more insular and pensive. The echoing space between the notes is emphasized and subsequently so are the voices and the texts.
  
  "Hmmm. Dirtmusic as well as World Music* (*Africa) fans of "Trouble" will most likely enjoy and appreciate the atmospheric and "opaque" tracks of "Lion City". Stars of Gao is the marque track on Lion City. As a remedial Dirtmusic western hemisphere fan, I personally did not find any notable standouts, such as Dirtmusic's unique" Black Gravity" from the BKO Album. Like the Black Keys, Dirtmusic has seemed to drift off their roots/origin sound, which for me was disappointing. ~Sota Smith