Impressionistic and trance-like, this music is as much a vehicle as it is a sonic conduit. Like a ’67 Velvets drone crackling from a battery-powered transistor radio beneath the Afghan sky, Naujawanan Baidar’s debut cassette evokes a world unto itself. Isolated, resonant, and strangely infinite. Recorded straight to 4-track and released in 2018 via the Netherlands-based label Radio Khiyaban, the 40-minute transmission unfolds like a sub rosa broadcast from another time, as its lo-fi textures and meditative pacing draw the listener into a furtive, half-remembered landscape where the past and present blur . . .
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