Kerala Dust - Light, West (2020)

Kerala Dust announce the release of their debut album ‘Light, West’,

out on Denature Records in November 2020. After six releases and three years of extensive touring around Europe and the Americas, the Berlin-based live trio around producer and songwriter Edmund Kenny finds itself taking an ambitious, sprawling turn with Light, West. A groove-laden soundtrack for a movie never made, this record feels like the most comprehensive review of Kerala Dust’s varying influences and inspirations, merged into something wholly unique. Starting with guitar-driven blues-house on ‘Night, Bell (Arizona)’ and moving firmly into the club on ‘Evening Redness’, the record then rides through a heady collage of bolero (Amsterdam), techno (Reflected) and 60s funk-balladry (Phoebe). The result of a year and a half’s work, the record’s most surprising aspect could well be that these varying musical tones all manage to feel part of a large, inter-connected musical narrative.