MAJLIS

Kundan Lal returns with new outernational downbeats. Three of the tracks on مجلس / Majlis are based on Pakistani dance classics by Muhammad Ashraf (Paky Life), Khalil Ahmed (Ovo Rhaps), Sohail Rana & the Five Caps (Vulgar Dragons), and one on Turkish psychedelia by Moğollar (Tudamus). Selected micro-sequences of these old recordings are tangled up in a dubby soup of Dr. John-esque swamp percussion, off-beat bass lines, drone-y organs, a creaking synthesizer assembly, and the trademark oriental field recordings by Kunsaf Halil, which are spread all over the record. مجلس / Majlis can perhaps be seen as the missing link between Debruit and the Contact Field Orchestra. ?01. Paky Life (3:55)?02. Ovo Rhaps (6:30)?03. Tudamus (6:00)?04. Vulgar Dragons (3:39)