Le premier album inimitable et énigmatique de Gonjasufi, ‘A Sufi & A Killer’, sortira le 8 mars 2010.
Produit par les ‘poids lourds’ de Los Angeles Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer et Mainframe, cet album profond et fascinant embrasse des influences de l’Est, un hip-hop réanimé et une soul psychédélique vintage – le tout lié par les paroles mystérieuses de Gonjasufi et sa voix captivante.

“In order to get the conviction behind the words, it took 30 years of a lot of frustration and despair…continual tests of faith. Day to day struggling. Bottled-up energy, then all of a sudden, the way it came out seemed perfect…it kept flowing. Continually flowing out of me.” – Gonjasufi

There’s a weird voice on Gonjasufi’s first album, “A Sufi and a Killer” (Warp): quivery, blithe, at half-tempo to the song, overmodulated but seemingly faded through re-transmission, an audio copy of an audio copy. It doesn’t sound like the thing you’re supposed to be focusing on. It sounds like an extraneous sample, perhaps from a movie, definitely from the days before digital. But that’s the voice of Gonjasufi himself, whose real name is Sumach Ecks: a yoga teacher, mystic and, apparently, singer, currently based in the Nevada desert. His album was produced, or beaten into analog dishevelment, by the Los Angeles producers the Gaslamp Killer, Flying Lotus and Mainframe. It doesn’t come out until early next month, but there’s been a couple of seven-inch singles so far, including the limping, menacing, hip-hop “Ancestors” and the slightly South Asian “Kowboyz & Indians.” With its slow grooves and gunked-up tones, it’s funky in two ways. New York Times Review “Gonjasufi”

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