Insanlar/ricardo Villalobos
Kime Ne (2x12")
Available again. Stunning music from Istanbul! A twenty-four-minute wig-out you can dance to - wild baglama improvisation and mystical male-unison singing, atop the propulsive mass of a Berlin half-stepper, with turbulent detours into dub, radiophonics and psychedelia. 'Kime Ne' means 'so what', 'what's it got to do with you'. The song adapts verses from the seventeenth-century poet Kul Nesimi, wistfully invoking the Melami strain of Sufism as a touchstone of humility and tolerance, in dark times. 'Insanlar' means 'humankind'... 'The Human Beings'. RV's mixes are expert, taut and hard-grooving. 2 is the more agitated and dubwise. Nearly an hour of music, on three sides; the fourth is etched with Katharina Immekus' lovely artwork. Knockout stuff, honestly.