Krystian Shek - al-Qāhirah va Sometimes the piano is at

Sometimes the piano is at the forefront (as on the solo piano piece

And this album is the confirmation

which centers around electronica and shoegaze aesthetics as well as a love of 80s production techniques

Montana and came across a record cover featuring a beautiful and strange drawing of a knight kneeling beside a maiden on her deathbed

On “Baby Love”

Krystian Shek - al-Qāhirah va Sometimes the piano is atKrystian Shek released a number of superb and still underrated albums on Namlooks FAX imprint over the years; his first Carpe Sonum offering, 2014s Sometimes Not, was a bracing return to form, and al Qhirah is the follow up, and its a dandy, a longform slice of far flung ethnotronica that speaks within dubs mother tongue but jettisons the lockstep rhythmic underpinning. In so doing, Sheks augured quite a brilliant thing: digidub that is all languid