Aksak Maboul - Redrawn Figures Volume 1

Aksak Maboul - Redrawn Figures Volume 1During the year which followed the release of the Figures double album, 14 artists have revisited or remixed songs from Aksak Maboul's acclaimed "comeback" opus. Participants include experimental pop luminaries The Notwist (DE), Cate Le Bon (GB), Kate NV (RU) and Vanishing Twin (GB), respected electronic music artists Felix Kubin (DE), Tolouse Low Trax (DE), Hello Skinny aka Tom Skinner (Thom Yorke's new bandmate in the Smile project, GB), Matias

are related to Welsh royalty Dame Shirley Bassey and Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield

including Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

The pair shares production and instrumental work across the record

to the sorta crooked dembow fusions explored by Brian Piñeyro (DJ Python/DJ Wey) and that recent Drew McDowell X Hiro Kone EP

Following the success of the outfit's first album Vol

'Mar Afunda'

including video from the Outer Space Visual Communicator footage

The added experimental flourishes

weaving together influences from Sun Ra to spirituals

and 1988's Ram It Down

the EP also includes “Suggestion

the Germany-based artist has made guest appearances in Berlin