Zun Zun Egui: Katang – review

(Bella Union)This Bristol-based quartet claim to play "free-range rock music", but it's more informative to take their description of their visual sense and apply it to their music: "Fifth world". Zun Zun Egui sound like a great many things, but most of all like themselves. You can see antecedents – Talking Heads, for example – but Katang doesn't sound like an attempt to finesse west African music into the shape of rock; rather, it's the other way round. So Kushal Gaya's guitar doesn't ring ...

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