Sunken Cages’ Electro-Acoustic Single “Drum and Flowers” is Like an Industrial Song Rooted in the Sounds and Sensibilities of the Global South

Sunken Cages, photo by Ed Marshall Photography

For “Drum and Flowers” Sunken Cages seems to have employed a hybrid production style to match the synthesis of musical ideas and styles. At first and throughout it sounds like something recorded to a cassette but put through modern production software. It brings together organic drums, synth sequences employed with the sensibility of organic percussion and lo-fi distortion to give the whole song a gritty and textural quality that contrasts well with the beatmaking. It’s like an industrial song if that music emerged from the global south rather than the UK, Europe and North America. The almost orchestral arrangement of drums truly sets it apart from possible obvious influences and in utilizing ancient sound sources with current technology and methodology in recording and production it hits the ears as deeply familiar yet fresh, new and celebratory. Listen to “Drum and Flowers” on YouTube and follow Sunken Cages aka Ravish Momin at the links below. The new album
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