MAMMAN SANI ABDOULAYE - Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 LP Photobook There were bands something like

There were bands something like this all over the States in those days

Harrowing from the outset

The band’s sound has diversified over their career to include elements of traditional heavy metal

adding might to many of its beats and squelch and frisson beneath many of its melodies

The liminally worrisome artwork was painted by John Cobweaver

MAMMAN SANI ABDOULAYE - Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 LP Photobook There were bands something likeExperimentation in early electronic music in the Sahara from the singular Mamman Sani. Dreamy organs and droning melodies reinterpret ancient folk tradition into sublime fantastical soundscape. Never before released recordings from the very beginning unreleased tracks from his first album, recordings of a short lived trio, and a cover of an American folk ballad.