SIMISOLA
chuki lives on the gradient between skittering deconstructed club, highly conceptualized art music and full-on bangers. Why choose one when you can have it all? Albums like “let all your biometric phlegm out” oscillate between straight-to-the-jugular percussive directness and twisted metal car crash sonics. The expansiveness is quintessentially diasporic and NY at the same time - their most fucked up moments sound like the M train going overhead during the carnival. FKA lawd knows, a member of SCRAAATCH and a former affiliate of the essential NON Worldwide, chuki has been a vital presence in the east coast club underground for years. They have delivered dynamic sets for Dripping (for the Groovy Groovy platform), Shock Value, Fame Kills, Hyperdub among other nights for open ended club sonics.
Image description: Chuki, a black person with a greenish hat, a mesh fabric underneath falling past their shoulders, chuki looks at the viewer and has a chin beard, 2 silver necklaces, and has their arms crossed. A warm strong light is cast on their face at the background is blurred with a sky turning to dusk.