New York-based composer and producer Kelly Moran’s intricate, experimental pieces transcend the piano’s more traditional and classically imposed school of thought. Her 2017 debut album Bloodroot was one of the most prominent experimental records of the year, with glowing reviews from The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, and included on countless year-end lists across classical, experimental, avant-garde and metal genres.
Now releasing solo records on Warp Records, Moran has become a prolific collaborator to visionary peers including Oneohtrix Point Never, FKA Twigs, Yves Tumor, Kelsey Lu and The Avalanches.
Since 2018, Village Cuts have been igniting dancefloors at venues and festivals around Europe and East Africa with their fusion of UK club sounds in collaboration with African, Latin and Caribbean creatives, whilst holding down regular club nights and live events across London.
Combining elements of Afro House, UK Funky, Amapiano and Afrobeats with major guitar licks, round syncopated drums and pepperings of bubbly FX, the duo have carved themselves an up tempo sound which feels equally at home on a festival stage, in a club or underneath a moonlit baobab tree.
Village Cuts have collaborated with celebrated artists from Kenya, Uganda, Congo and Colombia, releasing on labels such as Blip Discs, Wah Wah 45s, Strut Records, Galletas Calientes, Albert’s Favourites, Palenque Records, Heavenly Sweetness and Mawimbi.
