SOUND

Without exaggeration, she is the most exciting young musician that one can discover in 2019: The music of Melika Ngombe Kolongo alias Nkisi is rich with citations, connections, and traditions – but without precedent in its futurism and intensity. On her debut album 7 Directions she splices Congolese rhythms with the stratified beats of the electronic avant-garde, tells of African ghosts and the abstractions of pure beat mathematics, creating a truly post-globalised music that still speaks of the pain and the trauma consummated by globalisation.