Space Africa present: Quiet Storm

There is music that demands attention. And there is music that develops its own gravity. Space Africa has been working on the latter for years.

With Quiet Storm, Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang from Space Africa present their most ambitious album to date. It will be released on Dais Records on September 25th. Created between Manchester, Berlin and a wide network of collaborators, the record moves through ambient, soul, trip-hop, contemporary composition and the long echoes of black musical traditions without ever reaching any of these fields. Instead, spaces are created: fragile arrangements of voices, bass, silence and memory.

The title goes back to the work of conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, who for decades has dealt with language, blackness and the question of how meaning is created and slipped away again. A suitable reference for an album that consistently rejects clarity. The dizzying soprano voice of Axelle Fanyo, the poetic shifts of musician Klein, the spiritual warmth of Tony Njoku or the restless introspection of Deuén — like parts of a structure, fragments appear, overlap and disappear again. What is created is less reminiscent of an album in the classical sense than of an environment. Perhaps this is precisely the special quality of Space Africa. Her music doesn't describe a world. She's building one. A world in which Manchester echoes just as much as dub, sound system culture, sacred music or the ghostly edges of the club.

Quiet Storm will be presented live in Berlin for the first time for the release show with guests at the Volksbühne. Space Africa will be accompanied by British soprano Nardus Williams.

Born in Los Angeles as the child of Haitian immigrants, Bapari found his way to music through the city's underground DJ scene in the mid-2010s. Her productions and DJ sets range between techno, jungle, garage, hip-hop, IDM and experimental club music and repeatedly push electronic music in unexpected directions — from atmospheric soundscapes to idiosyncratic underground tracks. Her productions can be heard on FKA twigs Eusexua and Afterglow as well as Kelsey Lu's So Help Me God, among others. Since 2019, Bapari has also hosted the monthly radio show Puffy on NTS.

With the upcoming EP Blurry Days (Halcyon Veil, 2026), Bapari presents her most personal work to date. Born out of a phase of self-doubt, inner conflict and emotional disorientation, the six-part EP builds on the hybrid sound of Evermore (Halcyon Veil, 2025). Inspired by '90s shoegaze, trip hop and R&B and at the same time deeply rooted in Bapari's underground electronic background, the EP combines live instrumentation with layered vocals — for the first time, Bapari himself takes on the role of singers.

Since the debut of her live show 2025 in Paris, Bapari has been internationally active, including as support for Eartheater and Steve Lacy, with five boiler room appearances and at festivals such as Primavera, Sonic Acts and Hyperreality. In addition, Bapari works at the interface of music, fashion and contemporary art and has collaborated with Barragán, YSL Beauty, No Sesso, New Balance, Red Bull and Oura, among others.