MMW: Gonjasufi

Saturday, February 15th, 2014 // Blogs,MMW

Lo-fi, psychedelic, experimental, dubby hip-hop and rock. Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks) teamed up with underground hip-hop producer The Gaslamp Killer for his debut release in 2010, A Sufi And A Killer. The album sports 19 short and sweet tracks of glitched noise, skeletal instrumentation, and Sumach’s crowing vocals; along with several obscure samples from cultural music and old Turkish cinema. To top it all off, Sumach has also been an actor, having played Helios in the opera Persephone, and works as a yoga instructor in Las Vegas.

Hear it: Laxatives with alphonse & suffle, Thursdays 12 a.m. to 1 a.m.