Blues

Beginning with a minimal, very quietly building flow of nature and animal sounds and calls titled “After Rain,” Blues finds Fofana closing a trilogy of releases following on from Darkwater, with Amiri Baraka’s work being the stated source of inspiration. Split between four short tracks and one long one, “And All The Birds Sing Bass,” a track mixing utterly precise detail with a further field recording, Blues hits hard and well, from the plucked banjo or banjo-like notes on “In the Ravine” coursing above murky loops to hints of open-ended jazz improvisation on the title track.