DUPPY GUN MEETS FEEL FREE HI-FI - "S/T" LPDuppy Gun Meets Feel Free Hi Fi 12" EP (Digital Sting, 2022) "Spanish Town, Jamaica's Duppy Gun collective doesnt need much of an introduction for what is now a decade long run of creating some of the worlds most forward music. The Twin Cities based duo, Feel Free Hi Fi first connected with foundation member, mentor and leader I Jabhar through U. S. underground artists Cam Stallones and M. Geddas Gengras. This eventually culminated in the production

beneath the first floor of an unassuming rental house

whatever mode it's in on any given part of any given disc

weirder space

before launching the Taj Mahal Travellers

Some razor cuts and she’s done with it

hints of ancient music are bowed or chanted

Huevos II skirt the lawns of their experimental/improvisational/noisy neighbors with a friendly wave

Zambian writer and musician Smokey Haangala’s Aunka Ma Kwacha (The Money is Gone) released in 1976 is an example of this more mystical metallurgy

20 via Sophomore Lounge and Science Project Records

By the age of 14

- Patrick Stickles

But thank the heavens of white improv