Gonjasufi - The Caliph's Tea Party - out on Warp Records
Gonjasufi - The Caliph's Tea Party
(CD/LP/Digital) Warp Records WARPCD206/WARPLP206, 2010-10-04
It's a tricky thing, re-working a completely unique and peerless piece of music. It is made even trickier when the personality behind the original music is so vivid and otherworldly that it is almost sure to continue to cast it's long shadow over whatever new form is chosen for it. Of course the questions of whether or not to remix Gonjasufi's classic A Sufi and A Killer arose, but with that voice and those songs, it was never going to fail. Of course the fact that Gonja had made fans out of quite a few incredibly talented artists didn't hurt either. So, The Caliph's Tea Party was slowly summoned to life...
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