Eno Williams, frontwoman of Ibibio Sound Machine, uses both English and the
Nigerian language from which her band's name is derived for the dazzling new album
Doko Mien. Long lauded for jubilant, explosive live shows, Ibibio Sound Machine
fully capture that energy on Doko Mien, the followup to their Merge debut Uyai. In
a glowing piece in the New York Times, those songs were praised for following
"in the tradition of much African music, [making] themselves the conscience of a
community." By pulsing the mystic shapes of Williams' lines through further inventive,
glittering collages of genre, Ibibio Sound Machine crack apart the horizon separating
cultures, between nature and technology, between joy and pain, between tradition and
future.
Doko Mien: Tell me everything. On their new album, Ibibio Sound Machine provide
the perfect companion, ready to digest as much as possible and then further unfurl
beauty and hope. They remember and honor the past and charge forward toward the
future, all while intensely expanding the present.
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