Dawn of Midi Dysnomia

"A transfixing study in rhythmic obsession" --Pitchfork "Cannot urge you more strongly: go see Dawn of Midi." --Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker "Seriously never seen anything like these guys." --Jad Abumrad, RadiolabChanneled madness -- the sound Dawn of Midi spent years shaping culminates in their most mesmerizing work yet. With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group abandons improvisation in favor of composition, utilizing sophisticated rhythmic structures from North- and West-African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. "We didn't want to create anything cerebral," says pianist Amino Belyamani, "we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses." The manner by which a trio of solely acoustic instruments ends up sounding like electronic music has to do with the unconventional ways the group play their instruments on Dysnomia. The record comes to life in the trio's critically acclaimed live shows, a test of enduranc