Ancient Sounds X Future Focus: Fusion’s Superorganic Vision

There is something ingenious orchestrating a Ney flute and a steel pan speaking to one another: one carries over 5,000 years of history; the other a recent addition to the world’s instruments, a radical emergence from post-colonial Trinidad through discarded oil barrels transformed into one of modern music’s most emotionally resonant sounds. Within the upcoming Superorganic event Ancient Sounds x Future Focus at Rich Mix 22nd May, Alain ‘Fusion’ Clapham has curated a space where these instruments are not separated by geography, generation or chronology, they are collaborators.