A super interesting shake of the tried and tested afro / cosmic stick comes from Nathan Dawidowicz on Hell Yeah. Rather than the now customary, possibly ALFOS inspired, chunky drug chugging, the 3 tracks on Dawidowicz’s new EP are epic, slowly unfurling, psychedelic, and cinematic. Long form ceremonies, 10 to 17 minutes of drones and trance-y, tribal percussion. Nocturnal, evolving, developing, dramas of zither strings and spiralling kosmische keys. Gated, gurgling sequences and digital didgeridoos.

On Skeptic Afro Jr. cymbals crash and the rhythm chops like spinning rotor blades. Travelling through programmed fanfares. Like John Carpenter’s Sci-Fi heading up river, searching for Coppola’s Colonel Kurtz. The sinister slithering Scintilla then draws dancers deeper toward the heart of darkness. The unknown. The track’s blackness buzzing with sound effects and melodic vintage synth motifs. Mellotron, Moog, and Wasp. The bass bubbling like a boiling cauldron. The vocals a vocoder chant. Listening I couldn’t help thinking of witches covens and both Argento and Guadagnino’s Suspiria. 

Deep Fluff proceeds in a similar fashion, adding fairground Wurlitzer flourishes, but then pauses, stops and suddenly transforms into strung out psyche rock. Closing the EP with an occult prayer of trippy, treated tonsils, flayed fretwork and mind-bending backwards masked bits. 

Dawidowicz and Hell Yeah will host a Bandcamp listening party on January 23rd.

Nathan then takes this singular show on the road through Italy:

visiting Bologna on the 23rd, Perugia on the 24th, and Rimini on the 25th.