Cristiano Crisci’s second album is an intricate mosaic of world music and club culture, fusing fragmentary beats, samples and hooks into cohesive wholes. Spidery oud melodies, jazz piano and glitch-pop become natural bedfellows on “Ode to the Pleiades”, while Afro-folk singer Bongeziwe Mabandla glides over “Nguwe”’s squelching synths and scattershot beats. It’s dense with ideas but never overwhelming, and even the relatively spacious “Hope” weaves a frenetic kora riff into drowsy R&B.
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