Space Afrika present: Quiet Storm

With *Quiet Storm*, Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang of Space Afrika present their most ambitious album to date. It will be released on September 25 on Dais Records. Created between Manchester, Berlin, and a wide network of collaborators, the album moves through ambient, soul, trip-hop, contemporary composition, and the lingering echoes of Black musical traditions, without ever settling into any one of these genres. Instead, it creates spaces in between: fragile arrangements of voices, bass, silence, and memory.

The title draws on the work of conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, who has spent decades exploring language, Blackness, and the question of how meaning emerges and then slips away. It’s a fitting reference for an album that consistently resists unambiguity.

Axelle Fanyo’s dizzying soprano voice, musician Klein’s poetic shifts, Tony Njoku’s spiritual warmth, or Deuén’s restless introspection—like parts of a structure, fragments emerge, overlap, and vanish again. What emerges is less reminiscent of an album in the classical sense than of an environment. Perhaps that is precisely what gives *Space Afrika* its special quality. Their music does not describe a world; it builds one. A world in which Manchester resonates just as much as dub, soundsystem culture, sacred music, or the ghostly fringes of the club.

Quiet Storm will be presented live in Berlin for the first time at the release show with special guests at the Volksbühne. Space Afrika will be joined on stage by British soprano Nardus Williams.