New Friend - "Doki"

Friend is the London-based remixing songwriter Jesse Kanda. He blends traditional-sounding Asian music with Tropicália, a more electro R&B dance-floor streak, and elements from the chanty indie-rock sphere. It's kind of tapping into a Lucky Dragons/Rainbow Arabia/El Guincho vibe, but with more mysterious graphic design and a stripped-down Caribous-esque psychedelia. See, for instance, "Doki" a track from the forthcoming Shima EP. The images in the video might look familiar if you've watche...

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