Trumpeter and DJ Florence Lugemwa has built a successful career in music and aims to motivate her band of school pupils from Uganda’s capital city to do the
Lithium Blast
Antonio Poscic
, January 21st, 2021 08:58
A collaboration between Jonathan Saldanha of HHY & The Macumbas and trumpet player Florence Lugemwa, percussionist Omutaba, and the Kampala Prison Brass Band sends Antonio Poscic on a journey to sonic grooviness guided by cosmic nerve endings
“So, do you know anything about techno?” This innocent question sets the stage for an infamous scene from the 1996 obscure bundle of quirkiness called
Vibrations. As cybernetically enhanced musician TJ Cray (alias Cyberstorm) embarks on his quest of achieving electronic music stardom, the enlightened, 90s-in-the-flesh character Simeon answers his own query with a logorrheic, increasingly deranged lecture and keyboard demonstration. Techno is “hardcore nu-tronic mutilation”, we learn, a path to “a psychotically calibrated, electronically executed, digitally compressed, pus-excreting journey to sonic grooviness” guided by “cosmic nerve endings”. While Bob Christianson’