Tag: Naima Nefertari

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

The opening track from Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari's big double album Journey to Nabta Playa finds the two musicians amid a sandstorm whose whorling winds are accompanied by their own impish aerophones and the scattered patter of rattling cans and clinking chimes. Grainy and buffeted on 'Neptune Desert Sounds', those chimes feel more hallowed and personal on...