"Ancient Future" by Bana Haffar is out today! Please join her for the official listening party this evening at 19.30BST! https://banahaffarreleases.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-future Opening the album with what sounds like a garbled radio transmission, Haffar immediately gets down to business on 'Sun Dog', laying down a dense tangle of chopped oud patterns before diverting the flow with her cascading synth arpeggios and psychotropic portamento wiggles. She makes a salient connection between ecstatic music of the past and the new age ecstasy that guided the kosmische set as they probed "Eastern" philosophies and alternative lifestyles in the 1970s. And across the record, it's these links - "interconnected sound matter" that "moves between islands of respite in a sea of incomprehensibility" - that guide her, not any particular sound or genre...' - Boomkat