I Wish I Was A Sheep Instead Of A Lion

I Wish I Was A Sheep Instead Of A Lion - V

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Gonjasufi is one of the newest talents to join the much heralded roster of seminal electronic label Warp. If that’s not enough of a teaser for you to know Sumach Valentine’s music is something special, how about adding that his full-length debut, A Sufi And A Killer, is produced by a beatmaking A-Team of Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and Mainframe.

Released last month, Valentine’s split 7″ Kowboyz & Indianz / My Only Friend provided a great intro to the yoga instructor slash musician’s dark mysticism. Combining hip-hop, Eastern psychedelia and found samples underneath a bed of cryptic, poetic vocals, Valentine’s A Sufi And A Killer is one hell of an album. The beats are exactly what you’d expect from the hands of Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and Mainframe, meaning they’re a fantastic, inventive whipped and warped base upon which Valentine’s Tricky-esque vocals float like smoke rings. A Sufi And A Killer fills that imaginative space somewhere between graphic novel noir and post-apocalyptic cinema, a mysterious cityscape where a bearded prophet named Gonjasufi lurks in the shadows of a metropolis in ruin’s rubble, telling the tales of the future, memories wiped of the past.

Roaming free so no one’s safe.

Gonjasufi – Kowboyz & Indianz (190 kbps)

Gonjasufi – Sheep (181 kbps)