Amobi, Chino / Airport Music For Black Folk
Album: Airport Music For Black Folk   Collection:General
Artist:Amobi, Chino   Added:Feb 2017
Label:Non  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2017-03-15 Pull Date: 2017-05-17 Charts: Electronic, Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Apr 23 Apr 16 Mar 19
Airplays: 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Apr 20, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Warszawa
3. Mar 18, 2017: Reckless Burning
Milan
2. Apr 13, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Berlin
4. Mar 16, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Warszawa

Album Review
Shay Z
Reviewed 2017-03-05
Modern intersectional, electronic protest music. Founder of African experimental noise label NON, Chino Amobi provides a timely update of Brian Eno’s 1978 masterpiece to meet the anxiety of the post-9/11 era. Through industrial and noise song craft, Chino destroys Eno’s notion of the contemplative, privileged airport experience of old. Here, Amobi’s blown-out synths, gun shots, and breathy vocal loops expose the physical tension and disorientation of the modern airport. 
Genre: Noise, Deconstruction, TSA Jams
RIYL: Rabit, Elysia Crampton, Lotic, Arca
Favorite Tracks: 4, 5, 6
FCCs? Nah, almost no discernible lyrics
London (3:57) - textural, squeaky spacious, Evan Ifekoya monologue on being QTPOC (queer trans person of color)
London II (3:07) - begin with ambient terminal noise, huge spaces, lift off, warped robot vocals
Malmo (2:41) - gun shots, splatters, looped vocals, intense contrast of sad, musical voice with harsh guns
Milan (1:32)* - breathing, bass, lofty vocals, compelling
Warszawa (2:41)* - instrumental industrial banger, electrical slaps, plodding sound collage
Berlin (4:02)*- banging drums, looped vocoder returns, squawk, throbbing
Rotterdam (2:43) - What’s coming out of their … ? Oh Jesus, some serious noise here, collisions, smashes, trap air horn samples?

Track Listing
1. London   4. Milan
2. London Ii   5. Warszawa
3. Malmo   6. Berlin
  7. Rotterdam