ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Riot Grrrl Contemporary Sudanese music draws a

Contemporary Sudanese music draws a lot of influences both from Arabic musical as well as subsaharan traditions

but it's now charged with flashes of color and romance

Instead of leaning on his fertile pool of Omaha musicians (the amorphous Ghosts band)

formed by his homemade pre-drum machine rhythm generators

this was the album Michael Gira referred to in order to push the group forwards

ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Riot Grrrl Contemporary Sudanese music draws aExclusive black vinyl w bonus 7" edition of 250 the foreign department is the second album by astrel k, the solo project helmed by stockholm based british ex pat, rhys edwards. those already familiar with edwards work will likely know him for fronting the cultishly great ulrika spacek, and given he operates as the principal songwriter in both projects, much of the same hallmarks of his cathartic, elliptical songwriting are present in astrel k.