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September 1, 2025

New Chapter

Beautiful, off-kilter, jazzy Deep House warmth & Senegalese drumming

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Deep house journey-woman Viola Klein invites Detroit’s Whodat, Sabar Ensemble Diop from Saint Louis, plus Kassem Mosse, Nídia, and pals, to the party for a cool expansion pack to 2024’s ‘Confidant’ EP

Produced between Klein’s Köln & Dakar bases, and tagging in standard bearers of the sounds she references, ‘New Chapter’ opens out a family tree of implied links between deep house and its roots and branches. The original three-part EP supplies plentiful source material for the remixers alongside a handful of Klein’s exclusive new cuts and alterations for a sweetly variegated half hour of moods & grooves.

On her ones, Klein lends the all too brief piano study ‘Rely on the Key of a Flat’ plus a elusive glimpse of Senegal in her field recording ‘Picci Bis Bi Ci Dakar’, whilst finding tender new angles on her beatdown groover ’Snooze’ set supine, shoreside in the Seashore Korg X5D mix, and what sounds like Theo Parrish after too many edibles in the Oiseaux De La Nuit mix.

Detroit spar Whodat follows their 2019 Workshop split with a ruggedly slompy mix of ‘Boldness’, next to an ace, heads-down sleepwalker house mix of ’Snooze’ by another Workshop alum Kassem Mosse, but most impressive are the clipped canter of Nídia’s kuduro take on ‘Love in Life’ reminding us of weirdo Howard Thomas jams, and certainly the pair of swingeing mbalax by Sabar Ensemble Diop.

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ベルギーの実験系レーベル〈Meakusma〉やLowtec主宰の〈Workshop〉などからリリースを重ねてきたドイツ・ケルン拠点のエレクトロニック・ミュージック/ハウス・プロデューサー、Viola Klein。2024年の12インチ『Confidence』や、セネガルのSabar Ensemble Diopとのコラボによる伝統的なサバール・パーカッションと電子音楽が融合した作品「We」を素材に、世界各地のプロデューサーたちがリミックスを手がけた作品『New Chapter』が〈Meakusma〉から登場。デトロイトのディープでソウルフルなハウス的解釈のWhodat、抽象的でレフトフィールドな再構築をしてみせるKassem Mosse、クドゥロやアフロ・ポルトガルの影響を感じさせるリスボンのNídiaなど、多彩な顔ぶれで、多様な音楽的背景が交差し、地理的・文化的な境界を越えた音の対話が展開。アフリカ的なベースライン、生々しいパーカッションに加えて、フィールド録音、ピアノの断片、波や鳥の音なども織り交ぜられ、クラブの文脈にありながら、ユニークで実験的な音響空間を構築した、Viola Kleinの文字通り新章を告げる意欲作。

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EN ESTA ENTREGA, KLEIN TRAZA UN GENUINO PUENTE ENTRE EL HOUSE PROFUNDO Y LOS RITMOS AFRICANOS AL INVITAR A COLABORACIONES QUE VAN DESDE DETROIT HASTA SENEGAL. EL RESULTADO ES UN EJERCICIO SUTIL PERO FIRME DE REDISTRIBUIR LA HERENCIA DEL HOUSE: SUS GESTOS JAZZY Y SU CADENCIA HIPNÓTICA SE MEZCLAN CON EL TAMBOR SABAR Y ECOS DE KUDURO, DANDO COMO RESULTADO UNA EXPERIENCIA SONORA CLANDESTINA QUE ABRAZA LO GLOBAL Y LO ORGÁNICO. HAY EN “NEW CHAPTER” UNA MIRADA HACIA ATRÁS —HACIA LAS RAÍCES CULTURALES DEL CLUB— Y, A LA VEZ, UN PASO ADELANTE, UNA EXPLORACIÓN DEL RITMO COMO ESPACIO DE ENCUENTRO.

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March 2, 2020

We

Meakusma pair the rugged spirit of Viola Klein with mutual soul Julion De’Angelo for a deeply raw but stellar split .

Over the past three years Meakusma has been home to Viola Klein’s properly US-rooted style of bluesy, heavily soulful house, so it only makes sense they’ve also got time for the equally ruffcut and soulful burn of North Carolina’s Julion De’Angelo, who cut his teeth with a 12” for Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature in 2017, and a follow-up mix CD last year.

De’Angelo takes it from the front with eight minutes of the itchiest, frictional beatdown syncopation, woozy chords and oneiric choral voices in ’N’aie Pas Peur (Exchange Mix)’, next to the scuffed swivel and languorous keys of the ‘Don’t Be Scurred’ variation.

Viola Klein beautifully keeps up her end of the bargain in three parts, setting the scene with talking drums and velvet-draped chords in ‘We Part One’, before cutting loose on a wild 150bpm sort of psycho-jit-jazz tip lit up with sampler-punched strings and keys like Omar-S on a mad one with Howard Thomas, while ‘We Another Part’ lets the talking drums go wild against purple-hued chords in a style recalling classic Urban Tribe.

BAD!!!

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