His compilation featuring collaborations with HOLY TONGUE and BEATRICE DILLON landed on countless year-end best lists, became a cult hit here at the shop, and put his name on the map in Japan — now LAMIN FOFANA returns with a much-anticipated new album on his home base HONEST JONS! A record that contemplates the French anti-colonial activist and surrealist Suzanne Césaire, answering her work through sound. "Arc's Blue Flame" layers restrained synthesizers unafraid of dissonance, thrillingly welding together environmental sounds and drums. "Obscure Light" builds gently pulsing Afro rhythms atop cosmic synths. Grounded in a meditation on Afro-surrealism, it's a record that fuses and resonates krautrock, African music and electroacoustics to exhilarating effect. (Original Japanese text by Akie)