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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