World Music

Former Tinariwen producer, Brian Eno & Robert Plant collaborator steps into the light with an angelic slice of transcendental experimentalism. Ribbons is the latest installment in the unpredictable, left-of-centre and borderless work of the British producer and guitarist Justin Adams. Inspired by the work of painters such as Rauschenberg, Pollock, Miro and Motherwell, the 11-track album stutters and glides, with trance-inducing guitar motifs from North Africa weaving around the vocals of Norwegian singer and actor Anneli Drecker, best known for her work as singer with Scandinavian electronic duo Royksopp. Adams set out to make music that abandons traditional structure; using a mixture of rhythmic pulses and accidental or spontaneous elements, giving him the kind of freedom modern, experimental composers thrive on and allowing him to recontextualise trance music from Morocco and beyond.