This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
CMU Approved
Approved: Sudan Archives
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 31 May 2018
Sudan Archives’ recently released debut EP ‘Sink’ features an entrancing mix of Sudanese folk, R&B and experimental electronic music.
A self-taught violin player, she says that discovering the violin playing style of Northeast Africa was a key turning point in arriving at her unusual sound. “The way they played it was different from classical music”, she recalls.
“I resonated with the style”, she goes on, “and I was like, ‘maybe I can use this style with electronic music’. I started mixing my violin into beats. It wasn’t complicated – I’d just sing straight into the iPad”.
Ahead of an appearance at London’s Field Day festival tomorrow, she has released a video for EP track ‘Nont For Sale’, which you can watch here:
Stay up to date with all of the artists featured in the CMU Approved column by subscribing to our Spotify playlist.