ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Riot Grrrl Contemporary Sudanese music draws a

Contemporary Sudanese music draws a lot of influences both from Arabic musical as well as subsaharan traditions

Chaoui is a genre of Berber music that originated in the Aurès region of Algeria

Clint Walsh

formed by his homemade pre-drum machine rhythm generators

this was the album Michael Gira referred to in order to push the group forwards

ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Riot Grrrl Contemporary Sudanese music draws aExclusive black vinyl w bonus 7" edition of 250 the foreign department is the second album by astrel k, the solo project helmed by stockholm based british ex pat, rhys edwards. those already familiar with edwards work will likely know him for fronting the cultishly great ulrika spacek, and given he operates as the principal songwriter in both projects, much of the same hallmarks of his cathartic, elliptical songwriting are present in astrel k.