Nazar announces new album, ‘Demilitarize’, on Hyperdub, shares ‘Anticipate’: Listen

Nazar is releasing a new sci-fi and anime-inspired album, ‘Demilitarize’, via Hyperdub on 25th April. You can listen to the first single, ‘Anticipate’, below. 

The follow-up to his acclaimed 2020 debut ‘Guerrilla’, ‘Demilitarize’ was written at a time of new romance compounded by serious illness for the Belgium-born Angolan producer, who experienced an immune system weekend by Covid and the “latent tuberculosis he’d incubated while living in Angola”.

Faced with his own mortality, Nazar was motivated to turn the rough-hewn, fragmented kuduro of his debut “inside out” for ‘Demilitarize’, the trajectory of which is described as “shedding the armour of trauma and surrendering to this new situation”.

“With the album being introspective, I didn’t seek to capture sounds from real places to enhance its universe like on ‘Guerilla.’ I wanted to make it almost metaphysical like creating sci-fi, with classic cyberpunk anime Ghost In The Shell being a core inspiration,” he said in a press release.

 Pre-order the album here and listen to ‘Anticipate’ below. 

Revisit our 2020 Get to Know feature with Nazar here.