Published
Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 15:00
- Guerrilla, out March 13th, uses "rough kuduro" to "sensitively examine and digitalize his family's collective memory and country's past."
Nazar will return to Hyperdub next year for his debut album.
On Guerrilla, the Manchester-based Angolan producer uses his self-described "rough kuduro" sound to "sensitively examine and digitalize his family's collective memory and country's past," according to the label. The record documents Nazar's personal story of the Angolan Civil War and "its aftermath in countless people's lives," including his father, a rebel general who published a wartime journal, Memorias de Um Guerrilheiro, in 2006. Shannen SP, Klein and Nazar's mother and sisters also feature on the album.
"It's about the end, but it's also about dignity and remaining standing despite being mutilated," Nazar said of the album's last track, "End of Guerrilla." "Making your voice heard despite not having anything to say… the rain is symbolic of forgiveness, washing away all the evils the war had caused."
Guerrilla follows Nazar's Hyperdub debut, the 2018 EP Enclave.
Listen to "UN Sanctions."
Tracklist
01. Retaliation
02. Diverted
03. Bunker feat. Shannen SP
04. UN Sanctions
05. FIM 92 Stinger
06. Immortal
07. Mother
08. Arms Deal
09. Why
10. Intercept
11. End Of Guerrilla
Hyperdub will release Guerrilla on March 13th, 2020.
Photo credit: Joycelyn Yan
